rfc

rfc is a skill for Claude Code from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 83 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fixed ten-part document format for proposing and evaluating an architecture change, from the problem and context through options, risks, migration, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks for an RFC, design document, architectural proposal, or a plan for changing an existing system.
Why use it?
It makes design proposals easier to compare and review while exposing assumptions, costs, operational complexity, and failure risks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when someone asks for an RFC, design document, architectural proposal, or a plan for changing an existing system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/rfc
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 yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace --skill rfc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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 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 $0.00083 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00064

Measured 7d ago against content hash e6b631bc0452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rfc 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 7d 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.

claude-code/.claude/skills/rfc/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RFC

Produce an architecture RFC in the user's canonical format. The user is a Staff Engineer biased toward simplicity, FP, modular monoliths, and pragmatic DDD — challenge over-engineering inside the doc itself, do not defer it to review.

Steps

  1. Clarify scope before writing. If the input is vague ("RFC for caching"), ask 1-3 targeted questions: what problem prompted it, what's the current state, what's the deadline / urgency. Do not invent context.
  2. Read the repo if relevant — package.json, top-level structure, existing ADRs/RFCs (docs/rfc/, docs/adr/, .docs/) to mirror naming and tone.
  3. Draft all 10 sections. Do not skip any. If a section is genuinely empty, write N/A — <one-line reason> rather than removing it.
  4. Surface 2-3 realistic options. Never present a single recommendation as "the" answer. Include a "do nothing / defer" option when honest.
  5. Trade-offs must be concrete. Cost in dev hours, operational complexity, blast radius if it fails. No marketing prose.
  6. Recommendation must justify itself against the other options, not in isolation.
  7. Risks ≠ trade-offs. Risks are what could go wrong despite the right choice (regression, scope creep, dependency change, hiring gap).

Required sections (in order)

  1. Problem Statement — one paragraph, no jargon. What hurts today.
  2. Context — current architecture, team, constraints from history. Link to relevant code/docs.
  3. Constraints — hard limits (compliance, deadline, headcount, infra).
  4. Assumptions — explicit, refutable. Each one should be a sentence someone could disagree with.
  5. Options — 2-4 alternatives. Include status quo.
  6. Trade-offs — table preferred: option × (dev cost, ops cost, time-to-value, reversibility, risk).
  7. Recommendation — chosen option + why it beats each alternative.
  8. Risks — what we accept by choosing this. Include mitigations only where they're real.
  9. Migration Strategy — phased plan if non-trivial. Define rollback criteria.
  10. Open Questions — things this RFC explicitly does not answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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. 7d ago First seen · 36 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A e6b631bc0452

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rfc is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.