on-the-spot SKILL.md skillA

on-the-spot from webreactiva/yesyak is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add webreactiva/yesyak/on-the-spot@git:20261017.b634987

Pins git:20261017.b634987 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
webreactiva/yesyak
Path
skills/on-the-spot/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261017.b634987, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 27, 2026
Size
2,872 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Puts the user on the spot with rounds of multiple-choice questions, each with a recommended option, until no implementation doubt is left, before any spec or code is written. Use it whenever the user asks you to grill them, interview them, ask questions until everything is clear, clarify requirements, or when a feature request is vague ("I want an admin panel", "add authentication", "let users export data"). Also use it as the first phase of the feature-delivery-pipeline.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# On the spot

Turn a vague request into a set of explicit decisions. Ask; do not implement, and do not start the spec without an answer.

## Before the first question

1. Read the code that the feature touches: entry points, data model, config, tests, docs such as AGENTS.md. Questions grounded in real code are faster to answer.
2. Search whether the feature, or a part of it, already exists. Tell the user what you found before the first question.
3. Note facts the user may not know, and put them in the question text. Example: "the import script deletes every order before it loads the file; should it keep them?"

## How to ask

- Ask in rounds of up to four questions, with the question tool if the environment has one, otherwise in the chat.
- Every question has two to four options, the recommended one first and marked "(Recommended)", each with a one-line trade-off. Allow multiple selection when the options are not exclusive.
- Read free-text answers carefully. They often change the direction, add an option you did not offer, or ask you to stop.

## What to cover

Order the rounds from foundations to details. Skip topics that do not apply.

| Round | Topics |
| --- | --- |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add webreactiva/yesyak/on-the-spot@sha256:b7413b8f7c8f03ab

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.b634987, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261017.b634987 latest2026-10-17 b634987 2,872 BA view · diff
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git:20261017.e889d292026-10-17 e889d29 2,753 BA view · diff
git:20260927.87257af2026-09-27 87257af 2,657 BA view · diff
git:20260927.d224a3a2026-09-27 d224a3a 2,655 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2872 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

webreactiva/yesyak · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3uyhw6lakrqz2rxn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=webreactiva/yesyak/on-the-spot
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b7413b8f7c8f03abc2958b1a66377f15cdb57a7d5a5794f98d08cfa9e412a3ed

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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