ask-claude SKILL.md skillA
ask-claude from stevepolitodesign/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/ask-claude@git:20261014.fe9e53fPins git:20261014.fe9e53f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- stevepolitodesign/skills
- Path
ask-claude/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261014.fe9e53f, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 8,070 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- none declared
Recommend the best way to have Claude do something, checked against Anthropic's current docs, then write the prompt and run it once approved. Use when someone asks how they should prompt you, what the best way to ask for something is, or which Claude feature fits a job (CLAUDE.md, skill, hook, subagent, workflow, plan mode, /goal, MCP, headless, the API), even if they don't name a feature.
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 Claude Two questions sound different and are the same question: how should I ask Claude to do this? - "Users can't sign up." The answer is a way of working (reproduce first, plan or don't, what proves it's fixed) and a prompt that says it. - "Run rubocop after every edit." The answer is a feature. A line in CLAUDE.md gets followed most of the time. A hook runs every time. Picking wrong means it quietly doesn't happen. Either way, end with a prompt the user approves before anything runs. ``` task | v 1. look ...... the code and setup the task touches 2. read ...... the docs that apply, fetched now 3. ask ....... only what neither can tell you 4. recommend . the approach, why, and the prompt, shown for approval 5. run ....... here, as written ``` Two ways this fails. The answer comes from memory, and recommends a feature that's been renamed, or misses the one released last month that fits better. Or the prompt restates the task in more words and adds nothing the agent couldn't have guessed. ## 1. Look The task is `$ARGUMENTS`, or ask for one. Skim the README, the routes, the area the task names, recent commits there. You're …
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How to install
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/ask-claude@sha256:47efb6c6515d90efThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.fe9e53f, 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_sgfr52ffbq4tmcyn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 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 (8070 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
stevepolitodesign/skills · 5 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sgfr52ffbq4tmcyn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stevepolitodesign/skills/ask-claude GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/47efb6c6515d90efb99d9b86a7c89776bf0cdf6161872d1cf59931c1c60a3f64
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.
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