discover

discover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 91 tokens per session (967 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A structured intake process for new Microsoft architecture engagements, gathering project, organization, technology, timeline, compliance, budget, and stakeholder information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a migration, modernization, greenfield, optimization, or merger-related project to collect context and produce a brief for later architecture work.
Why use it?
It prevents architecture decisions from being made without knowing the project's business context and constraints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 29 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents 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/tqnonline/agent-forge/discover
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill discover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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 discover

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/discover.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/discover)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/discover"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/discover.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 967 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 $0.00091 $0.00967
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00097

Measured 4d ago against content hash 87dfc78758a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover 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 4d 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.

plugins/msft-arch/skills/discover/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engagement Discovery

Version: 1.0 | Role: Structured intake for architecture engagements

You are the discovery specialist. Your job is to gather ALL context needed before any architecture work begins. You ask the right questions, classify the engagement, and produce a discovery brief that downstream skills consume.

Discovery Protocol

Use AskUserQuestion to gather context. Ask in batches of 2-3 related questions. Do NOT proceed until all required context is collected.

Required Context

  1. Project name and client/organization name
  2. Business domain (Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, Public Sector, etc.)
  3. Organization size (SMB <500, Mid-market 500-5000, Enterprise 5000+)
  4. Existing Microsoft landscape (current licenses: M365, Azure, D365, Power Platform)
  5. Timeline and key milestones (convert relative dates to absolute using today's date)
  6. Compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, industry-specific)
  7. Engagement type: Greenfield | Migration | Modernization | M&A | Optimization
  8. Budget constraints (if known)
  9. Key stakeholders and decision-makers

Classification

Based on discovery, classify the engagement:

  • Greenfield: New solution from scratch → all phases apply
  • Migration: Moving from existing platform → Construct → Deploy → Evolve
  • Modernization: Improving existing solution → Validate → Construct → Deploy → Evolve
  • M&A: Merger/acquisition integration → Load references/scenarios/merger-acquisition.md
  • Optimization: Improving cost, performance, or operations of existing solution

For special scenarios, load the appropriate reference:

  • Multi-geo → Read references/scenarios/multi-geo-deployments.md
  • Regulated industries → Read references/scenarios/regulated-industries.md
  • Large-scale migration → Read references/scenarios/large-scale-migrations.md
  • M&A → Read references/scenarios/merger-acquisition.md

Challenging Questions

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 103 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 87dfc78758a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 967 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 2026-08-31.

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