decisive-action skillA
decisive-action is agent-read markdown (skill) from athola/claude-night-market: Guides when to ask clarifying questions versus proceed autonomously. Use to reduce unnecessary clarifying questions when intent is clear..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Decisive Action Guidance on when to ask clarifying questions versus proceeding autonomously. ## When To Use - Reducing unnecessary clarifying questions - Taking autonomous action when intent is clear ## When NOT To Use - High-stakes irreversible operations requiring explicit confirmation - Ambiguous requirements where clarification prevents wasted work ## Core Principle Ask questions only when ambiguity would **materially impair correctness** or capacity to fulfill the request precisely. ## When to Ask (High Impact Ambiguity) ### Always Ask For | Scenario | Why | Example | |----------|-----|---------| | **Destructive Operations** | Irreversible, high cost of error | "Delete which files?" | | **Multiple Valid Approaches** | Materially different tradeoffs | "Add index vs cache vs denormalize?" | | **Security-Critical** | Wrong choice = vulnerability | "Which auth method?" | | **Data Migration** | Data loss risk | "Preserve or transform?" | | **Breaking Changes** | Affects downstream users | "Deprecate or remove?" | ### Ask Threshold Checklist Before asking, verify: - [ ] >30% chance of wrong interpretation - [ ] Error cost > correction cost …
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How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/decisive-action@git:20260902.d04952cmdr add athola/claude-night-market/decisive-action@sha256:91a8076289655604Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260902.d04952c latest | 2026-09-02 | d04952c | 5,675 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.c7c8f6f | 2026-06-22 | c7c8f6f | 5,674 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.6f5c7d9 | 2026-05-21 | 6f5c7d9 | 4,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.c09f147 | 2026-05-08 | c09f147 | 4,889 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.9.5 | 2026-05-07 | 29eb49d | 4,904 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 (5675 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
athola/claude-night-market · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rtvmbode5nlia4vq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/decisive-action GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/91a807628965560488b33e9366c910d184b95f000fa3e03d69370801f632402e
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