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feature-requirement-clarification from robsonkades/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-requirement-clarification@git:20261016.c769bd8

Pins git:20261016.c769bd8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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SKILL.md skill
Repository
robsonkades/agent-skills
Path
skills/feature-requirement-clarification/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
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Repository stars
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License
Apache-2.0

Deciding what to ask the user about a feature, when to ask it, and what stops work until it is answered: reusing supplied answers and checking relevant evidence first, pricing each question by what changes if the answer is the other one, batching questions into rounds instead of interrogating, and marking the few that are genuinely blocking. Use when a feature request is ambiguous and the choice is between asking and assuming, when a long list of questions is about to be sent at once, when…

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What the file says

# Feature Requirement Clarification

## Purpose

Two opposite failures, and both are expensive.

An agent that never asks builds a correct implementation of a requirement nobody agreed, and
the gap surfaces when it is costly to close. An agent that asks everything turns a feature
request into a questionnaire, gets vague answers because the user has stopped reading by
question nine, and still ends up guessing.

The discriminator is not politeness or thoroughness. It is **consequence**: a question earns a
user's attention only when the two answers lead to different work, and only when nothing else
available can settle the missing intent, evidence or authority. A focused search can establish a
bounded gap; it need not prove that no answer exists anywhere.

## Workflow

1. **Start from the unknowns**, not from a checklist. Trace each question to an existing unknown
   or record the newly discovered gap; a small Inline task needs only a concise entry.
2. **Reuse supplied answers and the context report.** Check accepted session decisions and applicable
   policy/contract evidence before asking again. Run a focused repository check only when it could
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-requirement-clarification@sha256:f4247a59156800fb

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Source

GitHub

robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_idu4kv6okflq7luw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/feature-requirement-clarification
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4247a59156800fb570a9510550b756ec00e8a0b4409ec0cc3d05134995a8d43

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