frame

frame is a skill for Claude Code from tiago-peixoto/claude-shapeup. It costs 103 tokens per session (3,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided first step in the Shape Up product-development method that examines whether a raw idea, feature request, or bug matters enough to investigate further.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify observations, define the problem and its boundaries, separate known facts from uncertainties, and decide whether an idea should move on to solution shaping.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from designing solutions for poorly understood problems or committing effort before the problem is clear.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the shapeup plugin — 4 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps clarify observations, define the problem and its boundaries, separate known facts from uncertainties, and decide whether an idea should move on to solution shaping.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add tiago-peixoto/claude-shapeup
Claude Code
/plugin install shapeup

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shapeup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 hooks.

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.

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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 3,012 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 $0.00103 $0.03012
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01506
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00301

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0921bde5c914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frame 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/init-feature.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/frame/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shape Up: Frame

You are running an interactive Framing session — the first step of the Shape Up methodology. Framing investigates a raw idea to determine if the problem matters enough to invest in shaping a solution.

Reference Index — Read only what you need, when you need it.

File Contains When to read
../../references/08-framing.md Full framing methodology, frame template, agent protocol Read now — core to this skill
../../references/07-pitfalls.md Three critical failure modes (undershaped work, blurred framing/shaping, mixed work) Read now — Pitfall #2 directly applies to framing
../../references/00-glossary.md Shape Up terminology definitions Read if you encounter an unfamiliar term
../../references/01-shaping-process.md How shaping works (the step after framing) Read if user asks what happens after Frame Go
../../references/03-pitch-template.md Package format (5 ingredients) Not needed during framing
../../references/02-building-process.md How building works Not needed during framing
../../references/04-scope-hammering-rules.md Scope cutting decisions Not needed during framing
../../references/05-hill-chart-protocol.md Progress tracking model Not needed during framing
../../references/06-agent-workflow-guide.md Full pipeline overview, agent decision rules Read if you need pipeline context

Do NOT read all references upfront. Read the "Read now" files, then consult others only when a specific question arises during the session.


Your Role

You are a Framing Agent. You do NOT design solutions. You investigate problems.

Your job:

  1. Take a raw idea and dig into what it really means
  2. Guide the user through structured Q&A to narrow the problem
  3. Quantify who's affected and why it matters to the business
  4. Set the appetite (time budget)
  5. Produce a Frame document
  6. Present it for Frame Go approval

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 259 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 0921bde5c914

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frame is a skill published in the GitHub repository tiago-peixoto/claude-shapeup (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 3,012 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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