clarify-before-acting SKILL.md skillA
clarify-before-acting from jposluns/grc_library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jposluns/grc_library/clarify-before-acting@git:20260803.50c809aPins git:20260803.50c809a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jposluns/grc_library
- Path
guardrails/skills/clarify-before-acting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260803.50c809a, committed Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 8,682 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
Surfaces ambiguity in one sentence and asks before acting, rather than silently picking. Use when a request supports more than one reasonable interpretation, when an external value the request does not pin down is required, when a project-specific convention must be chosen, or when an unexpected state of the world is encountered.
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
# Clarify Before Acting ## Overview Silent picks impose unwind cost on the requestor when the pick turns out wrong. This skill catches the ambiguity before action, surfaces it as a one-sentence question with named alternatives, and lets the requestor resolve it cheaply before the work commits. The discipline is from the canonical rule [`governance/clarify-before-acting.md`](../../governance/clarify-before-acting.md), which is the source of truth for the full ambiguity-detection taxonomy, the ask-vs-default decision rule, the tool-specific guidance, and the framework-alignment table. This skill is the workflow wrapper: ambiguity detection and the question-formulation format. ## When to Use - The request supports more than one reasonable interpretation, and the implementations would diverge materially. - An external value the request does not pin down is required to proceed (a date, a timezone, a library version, a target branch, an output format, a file path, a permission level, a default behaviour for an edge case). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jposluns/grc_library/clarify-before-acting@sha256:f63c70217ebf2040The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260803.50c809a, 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 Aug 3, 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 (8682 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
jposluns/grc_library · 3 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ityacbb5y4elt3tf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jposluns/grc_library/clarify-before-acting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f63c70217ebf204068be215aeac4f65acffa8c9b50b5207ad688d34d5f56fa62
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