design-ask SKILL.md skillA
design-ask from ommakes/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ommakes/skills/design-ask@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ommakes/skills
- Path
design-ask/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Apr 13, 2026
- Size
- 7,031 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Unpacks poorly written Jira or Azure DevOps tickets into design-relevant framing. Use this skill whenever a designer pastes in a ticket description, acceptance criteria, or any product/engineering requirement and wants to understand what the actual design work is. Trigger when someone says things like "can you help me understand this ticket," "what is this ticket actually asking for," "decode this ticket," "unpack this AC," "what design work does this require," or pastes raw ticket text and…
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
# Design Ask Helps designers cut through poorly written tickets to understand what design work is actually being asked for, what's missing, and what questions to ask before starting. --- ## Your job When a designer pastes in a ticket, you are not designing anything. You are doing triage. Your job is to surface: 1. What the ticket is actually asking for 2. What's missing or ambiguous 3. Whether the ticket is prescribing a solution instead of describing a need 4. What design work is required and at what scope 5. What questions the designer should ask before touching anything Be direct. Don't pad the output. If something is unclear, say it's unclear. If a ticket is underbaked, call it that. --- ## Output format Always produce output in this exact structure. Use the headers as written. --- ### The real ask In 2-3 sentences, describe what the user or business actually needs here — stripped of implementation language. Ignore any prescribed UI solutions for now. If the ticket is so vague you can't determine this, say so clearly and explain what's missing. --- ### Type of design work …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ommakes/skills/design-ask@sha256:764c0453441f304bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 13, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7031 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
ommakes/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4tvwrsyylkrubex2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ommakes/skills/design-ask GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/764c0453441f304b13333d6710034d13db8b0a910e088116dfbec0c4cf494139
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