ask-when-unclear SKILL.md skillA
ask-when-unclear from kalabint/llm-tooling is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/ask-when-unclear@git:20260907.47ea7d2Pins git:20260907.47ea7d2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalabint/llm-tooling
- Path
skills/ask-when-unclear/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260907.47ea7d2, committed Sep 7, 2026
- Size
- 661 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- AGPL-3.0
If decoding an ambiguous instruction takes more than a few sentences of reasoning, stop and ask instead of guessing.
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 when unclear Effort spent inferring what was meant is a signal, not a task. Past a couple of sentences of "they might mean A or B or C", you are gambling on a reading. **Why:** a wrong guess on an ambiguous ask wastes the whole build; a one-line question costs seconds. **How to apply:** try a quick interpretation. If it does not resolve fast, ask a pointed question with concrete options. Reserve building-under-assumption for cases where any reasonable reading still yields useful work.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalabint/llm-tooling/ask-when-unclear@sha256:64f872f8ca52e716The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.47ea7d2, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_or7q272u2gxjxkr3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 7, 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 (661 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
kalabint/llm-tooling · 6 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_or7q272u2gxjxkr3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalabint/llm-tooling/ask-when-unclear GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/64f872f8ca52e716bcb5ab178f317f90871471691183d4b0ad3523c6c606a2b5
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.