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review-needs-assessment

review-needs-assessment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tomzx/agents. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a needs assessment, which explains who has a problem, what evidence supports it, and whether the problem should be addressed. It checks the evidence, affected groups, alternatives, and final recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating problem statements, user or stakeholder research, alternative solutions, and the decision to proceed.
Why use it?
It helps prevent teams from committing to work based on weak evidence, incomplete stakeholder input, or an unsupported conclusion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 13repo +1 changed 22d ago A scan 26 tokens original MIT

Good fit Evaluating problem statements, user or stakeholder research, alternative solutions, and the decision to proceed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/review-needs-assessment
View source ↗ tomzx/agents tomzx.github.io
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 tomzx/agents --skill review-needs-assessment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 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 $0.00026 $0.01018
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00407
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00102

Measured 22d ago against content hash 330349278f24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-needs-assessment 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 22d 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/review-needs-assessment/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.

Review Needs Assessment

Audits a needs assessment and reports findings across four categories: evidence rigor, stakeholder coverage, alternative-path completeness, and verdict soundness.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • If no argument is provided, locate the feature directory under .sdlc/features/ whose frontmatter issue field references $ISSUE_NUMBER.
  • .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/needs-assessment.md, or a needs assessment document provided in context or as a file path

Steps

  1. Read the needs assessment document from .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/needs-assessment.md if present, otherwise from context or as a file path.
  2. Identify issues in each of the four categories below.
  3. Report findings using the output format. Omit any category that has no findings.
  4. Write the findings to .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/review-needs-assessment.md with frontmatter artifact: needs-assessment, verdict (approved if the overall verdict is Needed or Nice-to-have, rejected if Not needed, changes-requested if the author must address findings), and reviewed_at: <ISO date>, and the findings as the body, per skills/sdlc/references/shared.md. Record any unresolved open questions in the findings body.
    • If the overall verdict is Not needed: also update the GitHub issue with the findings and stop the pipeline.

Review Checklist

Evidence Rigor

  • Is the problem stated as a problem (not a solution)?
  • Is evidence drawn from concrete sources (tickets, data, feedback) or is it purely assumed?
  • If evidence is Weak or None, is this explicitly flagged as an open question?
  • Are there evidence sources that were not checked but should have been (support logs, analytics, user interviews)?

Stakeholder Coverage

  • Are all affected stakeholder groups identified, not just those who speak the loudest?
  • Is it clear who benefits and who is inconvenienced by the current state?
  • Are edge-case stakeholders (admin, internal tools, accessibility) considered?

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 22d ago Changed · +2 lines 330349278f24
  2. 23d ago Changed · -4 lines a99b25c93abe
  3. 24d ago Changed 6273489a64db
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b47830b913d7

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review-needs-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,018 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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