vc-intent-clarify

vc-intent-clarify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit. It costs 42 tokens per session (5,907 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for clarifying an ambiguous request before assigning it to a structured development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before routing a new development request to determine its intended scope, approach, and other important decisions.
Why use it?
It identifies uncertainty in the request and, when needed, asks focused multiple-choice questions instead of allowing unclear assumptions to shape the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

vibecode-pro-max-kit is a set of instructions, agents, skills, hooks, and settings that gives AI coding agents a plan-first software development workflow. It is designed for developers, product owners, and other builders using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot across different technology stacks. The catalogue entries are the kit's own workflow components.

withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit · 1,114 stars · on GitHub

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/withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit/vc-intent-clarify
Any agent
npx skills add withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit --skill vc-intent-clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,907 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 $0.00042 $0.05907
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.02953
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00591

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3ffff3950fb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vc-intent-clarify 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-intent-clarify-output.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.

.claude/skills/vc-intent-clarify/SKILL.md · 610 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 610 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vc-intent-clarify

Output style: lead each question with the recommended option; plain language, no filler — process/development-protocols/communication-standards.md.

Two-mode intent clarification: SIMPLE (direct, 3-5 reads) and DEEP (research subagent first, then questions).

Scores a user request's ambiguity and — when Tier 2 triggers — produces a structured, multi-dimension clarification suite with option-rich questions rather than open-ended prompts. Uses vc-scenario, vc-predict, and vc-sequential-thinking style reasoning to generate questions, not just to answer them.

This is the highest-leverage skill in the system. Poor intent clarification wastes entire phase programs. Invest in the question generation step.


When To Invoke

At ORCHESTRATOR before every routing decision for new user requests. Check auto-skip conditions first. If none apply, score the four signals and act on the resulting tier.


Auto-Skip Conditions

These conditions force Tier 0 regardless of the ambiguity score. Check these FIRST.

  1. Continuation phrases — "go", "continue", "proceed", "just do it", or similar standalone instruction
  2. Mid-phase-program execution — active phase plan is selected and approved, user is advancing
  3. Trivial fix — single-file, under 15 lines, no schema/API/auth changes
  4. Explicit mode command — "ENTER EXECUTE MODE", "ENTER RESEARCH MODE", etc.
  5. Resuming active plan — an existing active plan is identified and confirmed
  6. Pure information question — "What is X?", "How does Y work?" mapping to a single obvious routing target

When an auto-skip condition matches, produce only a 1-sentence restatement of intent and route immediately per the existing routing protocol. Do not announce the tier. Do not surface any questions.

Priority ordering when multiple conditions match simultaneously:

  1. Explicit mode command (highest priority)
  2. /goal mid-program execution
  3. Continuation phrase
  4. Trivial fix / active-plan resume (lowest priority)
  5. Pure information question / resuming active plan (lowest priority — treated as Tier 0, auto-route to vc-research-agent or answer directly)

Read the full file on GitHub · 610 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 610 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3ffff3950fb3

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vc-intent-clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit (1,114 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 5,907 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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