wait-what

wait-what is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from toverux/cantrips. It costs 18 tokens per session (123 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A clarification prompt for situations where the previous explanation was not understood. It asks for more context, simpler technical English, and the project's own terminology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to re-explain its last message. It is for improving understanding, not for implementing a particular development task.
Why use it?
It helps restart a confusing exchange without assuming that the reader understood the earlier message. The input does not describe any coding or file-changing behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the cantrips plugin — 24 skills shipped together

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/toverux/cantrips/wait-what
Any agent
npx skills add toverux/cantrips --skill wait-what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toverux/cantrips

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cantrips, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 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 wait-what

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/toverux/cantrips/wait-what.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/toverux/cantrips/wait-what)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/toverux/cantrips/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/toverux/cantrips/wait-what.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 123 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 $0.00018 $0.00123
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00062
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured yesterday against content hash e720c877d69e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wait-what 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 yesterday.

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/wait-what/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Wait — I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the project's ubiquitous language.

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. yesterday Changed e720c877d69e
  2. 6d ago First seen · 11 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A a27d09ea756e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wait-what is a skill published in the GitHub repository toverux/cantrips (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 123 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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