quench

quench is a skill for Claude Code from takubii/smithy. It costs 48 tokens per session (394 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning aid that asks the smallest product or design questions needed to make an implementation plan clear before coding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify requirements, settle branching design decisions, and strengthen a plan before implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes missing acceptance criteria and unresolved choices that cannot be answered by inspecting code alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the smithy plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify requirements, settle branching design decisions, and strengthen a plan before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/takubii/smithy/quench
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add takubii/smithy --skill quench
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/takubii/smithy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install smithy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 394 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00048 $0.00394
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00039

Measured 7d ago against content hash 042e0160f045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quench scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude-code/plugins/smithy/skills/quench/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

quench

Clarify and harden a plan or design before implementation.

Rules

  • Read the provided plan/design and nearby code first.
  • Do not ask questions answerable from the codebase.
  • Ask the smallest blocking question first using AskUserQuestion.
  • If several questions are independent and low risk, batch up to 3.
  • Always include a recommended answer and a brief reason.
  • Stop when no answerable product/design questions remain.

Question selection

Prefer one question at a time when the answer changes the next branch of work.

Batch questions only when:

  • Each question is independent.
  • None changes whether the others matter.
  • The user can answer them without reading code.
  • The batch is at most 3 questions.

Question format

Use AskUserQuestion for user-facing questions. Prefer two to four choices. Put the recommended option first and label it as recommended.

Question:
<specific decision>

Recommended:
<option A> because <short reason>

Options:
A. <recommended option> (Recommended)
B. <alternative>
C. <defer or explicit non-goal, if valid>

Output format

Return:

## Decisions

- <decision and reason>

## Suggested plan changes

- <changes to apply to the plan/design>

## Remaining questions

- <deferred or unresolved questions>

Escalation

Ask the user only for decisions that affect product behavior, scope, acceptance criteria, risk, or non-goals. For implementation mechanics, follow the codebase unless the choice has user-visible consequences.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 69 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 042e0160f045

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quench is a skill published in the GitHub repository takubii/smithy (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 394 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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