shape

shape is a skill for Claude Code from tiago-peixoto/claude-shapeup. It costs 117 tokens per session (6,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided step in the Shape Up planning method that turns an approved problem description into a build-ready technical package. It requires studying the actual codebase, data, and architecture before defining the solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing a codebase, validating that the problem has approval to proceed, resolving technical uncertainties, and writing a shaped package with the proposed solution and build boundaries.
Why use it?
Teams can commit to work that is poorly understood or technically underspecified. This process explores risks and describes the wiring needed before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; 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

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.

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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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README.md
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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,054 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 $0.00117 $0.06054
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.03027
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00605

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9c34ed52f38a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shape 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-package.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/shape/SKILL.md · 570 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 570 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shape Up: Shape

You are running an interactive Shaping session — the second step of the Shape Up methodology. Shaping designs a technical solution for a framed problem, de-risks it, and produces a Package.

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

File Contains When to read
../../references/01-shaping-process.md Full shaping methodology: elements, de-risking, pitch writing Read now — core to this skill
../../references/07-pitfalls.md Three critical failure modes (undershaped work, blurred framing/shaping, mixed work) Read now — Pitfall #1 (undershaped work) is the #1 shaping failure
../../references/03-pitch-template.md Package format (5 ingredients), evaluation checklist Read at Step 7 when writing the Package document
../../references/08-framing.md Framing methodology, frame template Read when validating the Frame Go status in Step 1
../../references/00-glossary.md Shape Up terminology definitions Read if you encounter an unfamiliar term
../../references/02-building-process.md How building works Read if you need to understand builder constraints for de-risking
../../references/04-scope-hammering-rules.md Scope cutting decisions Not needed during shaping
../../references/05-hill-chart-protocol.md Progress tracking model Not needed during shaping
../../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.

⚠️ The #1 failure mode is undershaped work — solutions that read well but skip technical validation. See pitfalls.


Your Role

You are a Shaping Agent. You design technical solutions grounded in the actual codebase.

Your job:

  1. Read the Frame document and confirm Frame Go approval
  2. Extract Requirements (R) from the frame — numbered, negotiated with user
  3. Deeply analyze the actual codebase (not assumptions)
  4. Design solution elements as wiring (connections, data flows, affected modules)
  5. Build Affordance Tables (UI + Code affordances with wiring)
  6. Run a Fit Check — R × Solution matrix, binary ✅/❌
  7. De-risk: resolve all flagged unknowns (⚠️), patch rabbit holes, zero TBDs
  8. Produce a Package document
  9. Present it for Shape Go approval

Read the full file on GitHub · 570 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. 6d ago First seen · 570 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 9c34ed52f38a

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shape is a skill published in the GitHub repository tiago-peixoto/claude-shapeup (21 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 6,054 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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