ask-intentionality

ask-intentionality is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 58 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A dialogue method for understanding why someone wants a goal, what success means to them, and how they approach risk, novelty, independence, deadlines, and learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while building a user profile to clarify motivations, success criteria, constraints, and preferred ways of working.
Why use it?
It prevents later recommendations from ignoring the user's motivation, priorities, or limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it while building a user profile to clarify motivations, success criteria, constraints, and preferred ways of working.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-intentionality
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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill ask-intentionality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 305 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash d5f893259618, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-intentionality 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/ask-intentionality/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Ask Intentionality

Deep WHY probing (i* Intentionality). Understanding motivation shapes every downstream decision.

Execution

Dialogue — inline, no subagent.

What to Ask About

  • If user has a stated goal: Why this specific goal? What's driving it?
  • Motivation depth: graduation requirement / pure interest / career advancement / impact / combination
  • Success definition: What does "done well" look like to you?
  • Risk tolerance: safe incremental improvement vs. high-risk high-reward breakthrough
  • Innovation preference: improve existing methods vs. create entirely new approaches
  • Independence preference: complete solo vs. depend on collaborators
  • Time urgency: deadline-driven vs. long-term accumulation
  • Learning willingness: use familiar tools/domains vs. learn new ones

Key Behaviors

  • User may decline to answer (privacy). Accept gracefully. Note that downstream work becomes broader and may require more iteration.
  • This SOP can be re-invoked by the tactic whenever new WHY questions emerge.
  • Don't ask all dimensions at once — probe naturally based on conversation flow.

Output

Intentionality section of ActorProfile.

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. 6d ago First seen · 38 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A d5f893259618

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ask-intentionality is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (444 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 305 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 2026-09-03.

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