find-your-unknowns SKILL.md skillA
find-your-unknowns from axel-pm/watch-n-learn is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add axel-pm/watch-n-learn/find-your-unknowns@git:20260712.eb4eb11Pins git:20260712.eb4eb11 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- axel-pm/watch-n-learn
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- git:20260712.eb4eb11, committed Jul 12, 2026
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- 9
- License
- MIT
Before turning an agent loose on a coding task, surface the decisions you never specified — the gaps between your prompt (the "map") and the real codebase (the "territory"). Runs six prompt patterns (blind-spot pass, brainstorm/prototype, interview-me, reference-as-map, implementation-notes logging, quiz-me) to enumerate unknowns and shape the architecture up front. Use when the user says "help me scope this before I build it", "what am I missing", "find my blind spots…
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What the file says
# find-your-unknowns A more capable agent traverses more of the codebase, so it hits more decisions you never wrote down — and drifts. The fix is to find those decisions *before* the big run. Your prompt is a **map**; the codebase is the **territory**. This skill surfaces everywhere the territory holds something your map doesn't. ## When to use vs. skip - **Use** before a large, ambiguous, or architecture-shaping task, or when you (or the user) are new to this codebase or domain. - **Skip** for a small, fully-specified change where the territory is already known — running the full battery would be ceremony. ## Inputs - A **task/goal** (what the user wants built or changed). - A **target repo or subsystem** you can read. - Optionally: reference code/mockups, and context about the user's taste, stage, and constraints. ## Workflow Don't blindly run all six. Pick by the *kind* of unknown in play (see table), run those, then consolidate. Note the **When** column: only patterns 1–4 run during this scoping pass. Pattern 5 is an instruction you *produce now* but inject into the later build run; pattern 6 runs *after* the …
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How to install
mdr add axel-pm/watch-n-learn/find-your-unknowns@sha256:565511309a3d144aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260712.eb4eb11, 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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Source
axel-pm/watch-n-learn · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q6ynkyorgw2nnw6i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=axel-pm/watch-n-learn/find-your-unknowns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/565511309a3d144a2153eae7a4d29581a837d8e3269e40baeddb712ce0c31501
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