clarify-question

clarify-question is a skill for Claude Code from thuong-nc/perlytics-skill. It costs 56 tokens per session (847 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A question-framing method that turns an ambiguous business or data-analysis request into a clear brief. It identifies the goal, metric, comparison, timeframe, filters, level of detail, and decision context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before analyzing a CSV, spreadsheet, dashboard, report, or business question that does not clearly state what result is needed.
Why use it?
It prevents an answer from depending on hidden assumptions about what should be measured or compared. If important information is missing, it makes those gaps or assumptions visible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the perlytics-skill plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before analyzing a CSV, spreadsheet, dashboard, report, or business question…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill/clarify-question
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 thuong-nc/perlytics-skill --skill clarify-question
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install perlytics-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 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 clarify-question

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill/clarify-question.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill/clarify-question)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill/clarify-question"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thuong-nc/perlytics-skill/clarify-question.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 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 $0.00056 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 7d ago against content hash ff73e47afc47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify-question 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.

skills/clarify-question/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clarify Question

Purpose

Turn a vague business or analytics question into a clear analysis brief before answering.

When to use

Use this skill when:

  • the user asks "why", "what happened", or "how is X doing" without enough detail
  • the user asks to analyze a file, CSV, spreadsheet, report, dashboard, or table without specifying the metric or decision
  • the user says "analyze this data," "read these numbers," or "find insights" but the analytical frame is still missing
  • the metric is implied but not defined
  • the comparison period is missing
  • the requested answer could change depending on entity, segment, or grain

When not to use

Do not use this skill when:

  • the question is already tightly scoped and fully specified
  • the user is asking for a mechanical task rather than analysis framing
  • the necessary metric, baseline, and decision context are already explicit

Required thinking discipline

  • Do not answer the business question immediately.
  • Separate clarification from explanation.
  • Ask only the minimum questions needed to make the request answerable.
  • If context remains missing, state assumptions explicitly before continuing.
  • Evidence constraint: Every conclusion must cite specific data — a number, a rate, a segment, or a timeframe. Do not speculate without evidential basis. If data is insufficient, state what is missing rather than asserting an unsupported inference.

Workflow

  1. Restate the user's question in neutral business terms.
  2. Identify missing elements:
    • Metric: the quantitative definition being analyzed
    • Dimension: the categorical breakdown used to slice the metric
    • Grain: the unit of observation (day, order, user, account, etc.)
    • Timeframe: the period included in the analysis
    • Baseline: the reference point used for comparison
    • Filter: the inclusion or exclusion rule that narrows scope
    • Decision context: what action or decision this analysis is meant to inform
  3. Ask the smallest useful set of clarifying questions.
  4. If the user cannot answer, propose default assumptions and mark them clearly.
  5. Produce a clarified analysis brief before any interpretation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 7d ago First seen · 101 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ff73e47afc47

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clarify-question is a skill published in the GitHub repository thuong-nc/perlytics-skill (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 847 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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