requirement-gathering

requirement-gathering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tesslio/spec-driven-development-tile. It costs 83 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided interview process for turning a vague software request into clear requirements and acceptance criteria—the conditions that define when the work is done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing a specification or code for an unclear feature, bug fix, or refactor.
Why use it?
It exposes missing details about scope, edge cases, errors, integrations, security, and performance before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tesslio/spec-driven-development-tile/requirement-gathering
Any agent
npx skills add tesslio/spec-driven-development-tile --skill requirement-gathering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesslio/spec-driven-development-tile

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00083 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00062

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8d6aaf57eb12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirement-gathering 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 6d 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.

skills/requirement-gathering/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirement Gathering

Structured interview process that turns vague requests into clear, actionable requirements.

When to use

  • A new task arrives from a stakeholder (feature, bugfix, refactor)
  • The request has ambiguous or missing acceptance criteria
  • Existing specs don't cover the requested change
  • Before running spec-writer to create or update specs

Rules

  • Ask ONE question at a time (see one-question-at-a-time rule)
  • Never begin implementation until requirements are confirmed
  • Base questions on gaps found in existing specs, not assumptions

Inputs

  • The stakeholder's initial request
  • Existing specs in the project's specs/ folder (if any)

Steps

  1. Review existing specs. Scan the specs/ directory for any specs related to the request. Note what's already documented and what's missing.

  2. Identify gaps. List the ambiguous or underspecified areas:

    • Unclear scope boundaries (what's in vs. out)
    • Missing edge cases or error handling expectations
    • Unspecified behavior for boundary conditions
    • Unclear integration points with existing functionality
    • Missing non-functional requirements (performance, security)
  3. Interview the stakeholder. Ask ONE question at a time. Wait for the answer before asking the next question. Prioritize questions by impact — ask about scope and core behavior first, edge cases second.

    Good questions are specific and bounded:

    • "Should the API return a 404 or an empty list when no results match?"
    • "Is this endpoint authenticated, and if so, which roles have access?"

    Bad questions are open-ended or bundled:

    • "What should the API do?" (too vague)
    • "What about errors, pagination, auth, and rate limits?" (too many at once)
  4. Summarize requirements. After all questions are answered, present a concise summary of the clarified requirements back to the stakeholder for confirmation.

  5. Get explicit approval. Do not proceed until the stakeholder confirms the summary is accurate. If they correct anything, update the summary and re-confirm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 6d ago First seen · 71 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 8d6aaf57eb12

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requirement-gathering is a skill published in the GitHub repository tesslio/spec-driven-development-tile (53 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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