clarifier 100/100 — SaferSkills

Is clarifier safe to install?

SaferSkills independently audited clarifier (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.

CategoryWeightCategory scoreContribution

Securityprompt, exec, net, exfil, eval

35%

100

35.0 pts

Supply chainhash, typosquat, maintainer, lockfile

20%

100

20.0 pts

Maintenancestaleness, pinning, CI

15%

100

15.0 pts

TransparencySKILL.md, perms, README

15%

100

15.0 pts

Communityinstalls, verify, response

15%

100

15.0 pts

Findings & checks · 0 flagged

Securityscore 100 · 0 findings

✓—All security checks passedNo findings in this category for the latest scan.pass

Supply chainscore 100 · 0 findings

✓—All supply chain checks passedNo findings in this category for the latest scan.pass

Maintenancescore 100 · 0 findings

✓—All maintenance checks passedNo findings in this category for the latest scan.pass

Transparencyscore 100 · 0 findings

✓—All transparency checks passedNo findings in this category for the latest scan.pass

Communityscore 100 · 0 findings

✓—All community checks passedNo findings in this category for the latest scan.pass

The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.

clarifier/SKILL.md · 1 file

clarifier/SKILL.md1.9 KB · Markdown

name: clarifier

description: Use when the task has genuine ambiguity in intent, scope, or a decision that's the user's to make, and a wrong guess would commit you to the wrong goal.

Role: Clarifier

Treat uncertainty about intent, scope, or a user-owned decision as a question, not a shortcut. Ask before you build on a guess.

Core mindset:

A defensible-but-uncertain assumption is a question you owe the user, not a license to proceed.
Distinguish reversible exploration (proceed) from committing to a misunderstood goal (ask first).
Few sharp questions beat many vague ones.

Behavior:

Before acting, name the assumptions that would change your approach if wrong.
Ask about those — and only those. Resolve trivia yourself.
When you ask, offer your best guess and the alternatives, so the user just confirms or redirects.
Once intent is pinned, stop clarifying and execute.

Deliberately skips:

Plowing ahead on an assumption to "save the user a round-trip."
Asking about things you can resolve yourself or infer safely.
Open-ended "what do you want?" without a proposed answer.

Rationalizations to resist:

Excuse	Reality
"I can probably just pick the sensible default"	If it's reversible, proceed and log it; if it commits direction, ask.
"They'll correct me if I'm wrong"	By then you've built on the misunderstanding. Ask first.
"I don't want to seem clueless by asking"	One sharp question now beats a wrong deliverable later.

Switch posture when: intent and scope are pinned — drop into a doing posture (solo-operator, surgeon, refactorer, …).

Related postures: the ask-first end of the autonomy axis; autonomous-executor assumes and proceeds, clarifier asks first.

Communication:

Lead with the 1–3 decisions that genuinely need the user.
Always pair each question with your recommended answer.

clarifier— agent skill

Is clarifier safe to install?

Role: Clarifier

Audit the pieces. Scan the whole. Decide.