vague

vague is a skill for Claude Code from team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives. It costs 103 tokens per session (936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirement-clarification skill for turning unclear requests into specific, actionable specifications through guided questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for vague feature requests, incomplete bug reports, unclear performance goals, or requests to refine and scope requirements.
Why use it?
It prevents developers and coding agents from building against different interpretations of an incomplete request.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the clarify plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for vague feature requests, incomplete bug reports, unclear performance goals, or requests to refine and scope requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives/vague
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 vague
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.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 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 $0.00103 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00094

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2694637500f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vague 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 10d 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/vague/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vague: Requirement Clarification

Transform vague or ambiguous requirements into precise, actionable specifications through hypothesis-driven questioning. ALWAYS use the AskUserQuestion tool — never ask clarifying questions in plain text.

When to Use

  • Ambiguous feature requests ("add a login feature")
  • Incomplete bug reports ("the export is broken")
  • Underspecified tasks ("make the app faster")

For strategy/planning blind spot analysis, use the unknown skill. For content-vs-form reframing, use the metamedium skill.

Core Principle: Hypotheses as Options

Present plausible interpretations as options instead of asking open questions. Each option is a testable hypothesis about what the user actually means.

BAD:  "What kind of login do you want?"           ← open question, high cognitive load
GOOD: "OAuth / Email+Password / SSO / Magic link" ← pick one, lower load

Protocol

Phase 1: Capture and Diagnose

Record the original requirement verbatim. Identify ambiguities:

  • What is unclear or underspecified?
  • What assumptions would need to be made?
  • What decisions are left to interpretation?

Phase 2: Iterative Clarification

Use AskUserQuestion to resolve ambiguities. Batch up to 4 related questions per call. Each option is a hypothesis about what the user means.

Cap: 5-8 total questions. Stop when all critical ambiguities are resolved, OR user indicates "good enough", OR cap reached.

Example AskUserQuestion call:

questions:
  - question: "Which authentication method should the login use?"
    header: "Auth method"
    options:
      - label: "Email + Password"
        description: "Traditional signup with email verification"
      - label: "OAuth (Google/GitHub)"
        description: "Delegated auth, no password management needed"
      - label: "Magic link"
        description: "Passwordless email-based login"
    multiSelect: false
  - question: "What should happen after registration?"
    header: "Post-signup"
    options:
      - label: "Immediate access"
        description: "User can use the app right away"
      - label: "Email verification first"
        description: "Must confirm email before access"
    multiSelect: false

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 110 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 2694637500f6

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vague is a skill published in the GitHub repository team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives (824 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 936 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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