A guided process for turning one unclear software request into a written design and acceptance criteria. It uses evidence from the project, step-by-step questions, and comparisons between possible approaches.

Clarifying a single feature, behaviour change, complex bug fix, or technical trade-off, and recording the agreed scope in specs/design.md.

It reduces confusion about what a feature or fix should do before implementation begins.

clarifying — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by venomwise

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 venomwise/skill-factory --skill clarifying

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/venomwise/skill-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/venomwise/skill-factory/clarifying.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,108 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00110	$0.03108
Opus 5.5	$0.00044	$0.01243
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00622
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00311

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2552b61dc707, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarifying 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check-design-doc.mjs, scripts/check-markdown-lines.mjs, scripts/find-identifiers.mjs), 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.

clarifying/SKILL.md · 227 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

10d ago Changed · -51 lines · -5 tokens per session 2552b61dc707
2mo ago Changed · +26 lines 3b5a919343c0
2mo ago First seen · 252 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 2833f8a041a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarifying is a skill published in the GitHub repository venomwise/skill-factory (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 3,108 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

Planning

clarifying next to 6 skills from other repositories
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clarifyingvenomwise/skill-factory	Skill	1	3d ago	none	A	110	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	yesterday	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	314k	4d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code