scope

A process for defining and changing the boundaries of a software project, including sorting new requests and feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the project direction is unclear, new wishes arrive, scope changes during development, or proposed work does not match the product brief.
Why use it?
It prevents features from being added silently and gives each proposed capability a clear reason and testable description.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tradebaas/groundwork/scope
Any agent
npx skills add Tradebaas/Groundwork --skill scope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tradebaas/Groundwork

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00070 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc5297e43552, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/scope/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scope: the boundary is a decision, not a feeling

docs/product/BRIEF.md is the single measuring stick. This skill is the only path that changes it.

Sharpening scope

For each candidate capability, make it earn its place:

  1. Which user, in which situation, is blocked without it?
  2. Does an existing capability (SC-item), a platform feature, or an off-the-shelf product already cover it? (Decision ladder: don't rebuild what exists.)
  3. Can version one ship without it? If yes, it goes to Out of scope or INTAKE with a trigger.

Write results as numbered, testable SC-items. Vague scope ("a dashboard") is not scope; scope says what the user can do ("SC-3: owner sees per-project hours, filterable by month"). Phrase each one so the owner recognizes it without a translation: their words, no jargon, no component names. The progress overview quotes these lines back to them verbatim (node checks/progress.mjs), so a line only they can read is a line they cannot check.

A fuzzy word in any answer ("you said account: the Customer or the User?") gets pinned in the glossary docs/product/CONTEXT.md the moment it surfaces.

Sharpen at the project's class depth: begin §2 defines personal, team, and organization and names which BRIEF discovery rows each class answers. A change that shifts the class upward - a personal tool gains team users, a team tool reaches a client - reopens every BRIEF discovery row that says n/a: re-ask those at the new depth before widening anything else.

Triage: INTAKE.md

Nothing is built from INTAKE. Per item, propose one of:

  • In scope → owner signs off → add/extend an SC-item → gets a spec (spec skill).
  • Out of scope → record the reason in BRIEF's out-of-scope list. Say it plainly; a parked good idea is not a rejection of the person.
  • Later → stays in INTAKE with an explicit revisit trigger ("after launch", "if >100 users").
  • Bug → not a scope question; goes straight to a fix with a regression test.

For an in-scope item, name the cheapest tier that delivers it (decision 0015: an artifact or on-demand skill before a gate, a gate before an always-on rule); the tier is part of the recommendation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A fc5297e43552

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tradebaas/Groundwork (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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