unknown

unknown is a skill for Claude Code from team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives. It costs 138 tokens per session (1,631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for examining a strategy or decision through four categories: what is known, what is unknown, what is assumed, and what may be overlooked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing strategy documents, decisions, and plans where missing information or untested assumptions could affect the outcome.
Why use it?
It helps reveal hidden assumptions and blind spots before acting on a plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the clarify plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing strategy documents, decisions, and plans where missing information or untested assumptions could affect the outcome.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives/unknown
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 team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives --skill unknown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clarify, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for unknown

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,631 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00138 $0.01631
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00163

Measured 9d ago against content hash bbe9dbee1a1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unknown 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 9d 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.

plugins/clarify/skills/unknown/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unknown: Surface Blind Spots with Known/Unknown Quadrants

Surface hidden assumptions and blind spots in any strategy, plan, or decision using the Known/Unknown quadrant framework and hypothesis-driven questioning.

When to Use

  • Strategy or planning documents that need scrutiny
  • Decisions with unclear direction or hidden assumptions
  • Any situation where "what we don't know" matters more than "what we do know"

For specific requirement clarification (feature requests, bug reports), use the vague skill. For content-vs-form reframing (optimizing within a form vs inventing a new form), use the metamedium skill.

Core Principle: Hypothesis-as-Options

ALWAYS use the AskUserQuestion tool for every question in R1/R2/R3 — never ask questions in plain text. The structured format enforces hypothesis-as-options and limits choice fatigue.

Present hypotheses as options instead of open questions. The hypotheses ARE the analysis — by designing good options, 80% of the analytical work is done before the user even answers. The user's job is to confirm, correct, or surprise.

BAD:  "Why can't you do video content?"           ← open question, high load
GOOD: "Time / Skill gap / No guests / High bar"   ← pick one or more
  • Each option IS a testable hypothesis about the user's situation
  • Use multiSelect: true to catch compound causes
  • "Other" is always available for out-of-frame answers

3-Round Depth Pattern

Round Purpose Questions Key trait
R1 Validate draft quadrant 3-4 Broad, covers all quadrants
R2 Drill into weak spots 2-3 Targeted, follows R1 answers
R3 Nail execution details 2-3 Specific, optional

Critical: Generate Round N questions from Round N-1 answers. Never use pre-prepared questions across rounds. Cap total at 7-10 questions.

Protocol

Phase 1: Intake

File provided: Read and extract goals, components, implicit assumptions, missing elements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 144 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A bbe9dbee1a1e

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unknown is a skill published in the GitHub repository team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives (824 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 1,631 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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