ask-clarifying-questions SKILL.md skillA
ask-clarifying-questions from usetemi/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add usetemi/skills/ask-clarifying-questions@git:20261012.013ecfePins git:20261012.013ecfe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- usetemi/skills
- Path
skills/ask-clarifying-questions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261012.013ecfe, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 12, 2026
- Size
- 11,692 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Conduct a clarification interview before writing code, investigating ambiguous bugs, or changing design or architecture, then use the resulting model of how the user decides to make implementation-time decisions on their behalf. Uses AskUserQuestion in Claude Code, request_user_input in Codex when exposed, or plain prose when no interactive question tool is available. Use when the user invokes /ask-clarifying-questions or $ask-clarifying-questions, names ask-clarifying-questions, or asks to…
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
# Ask Clarifying Questions Align your trajectory with the user's before code is written. The interview has two outputs: the load-bearing decisions, settled by the user, and a model of how the user decides, which you use for every decision the interview did not cover. Ask with the agent's interactive question tool when it is available; otherwise use concise prose. ## Before Asking - Use this skill only when it has already triggered and the request still has load-bearing ambiguity. - Skip mechanical requests: typo fixes, obvious renames, or one-line bug fixes the user has already diagnosed. - As a subagent without a direct user-answer channel, do not interview. Return the open questions and best-guess assumptions so the orchestrator can escalate. - In non-interactive or headless runs, skip the interview, state the key assumptions, and proceed. - Explore first, ask second. Read the brief, earlier turns, `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`, open files, git status, and relevant diffs. Never ask what a read-only command or file read can answer; finding facts is your job, choosing between them is the user's. ## Process ### 1. Map the decision space …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add usetemi/skills/ask-clarifying-questions@sha256:075891821bf3d1b1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.013ecfe, 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 May 12, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 38 days.
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| git:20261012.013ecfe latest | 2026-10-12 | 013ecfe | 11,692 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.fb35d58 | 2026-09-30 | fb35d58 | 11,132 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.a0ae8a4 | 2026-09-19 | a0ae8a4 | 7,144 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.3121d53 | 2026-07-08 | 3121d53 | 6,879 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260512.fc58ad0 | 2026-05-12 | fc58ad0 | 7,892 B | A | view |
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 (11692 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
usetemi/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_omfecoikigc4d3ib GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=usetemi/skills/ask-clarifying-questions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/075891821bf3d1b109176b77ef9e9c59614c00454c209584e20f9682e5c3ff23
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