asking-clarifying-questions SKILL.md skillA
asking-clarifying-questions from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/asking-clarifying-questions@git:20260616.eb1d79cPins git:20260616.eb1d79c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
- Path
plugins/ed3d-plan-and-execute/skills/asking-clarifying-questions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260616.eb1d79c, committed Jun 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 15, 2026
- Size
- 12,596 bytes
- Repository stars
- 253
- License
- none declared
Use after initial design context is gathered, before brainstorming - resolves contradictions in requirements, disambiguates terminology, clarifies scope boundaries, and verifies assumptions to prevent building the wrong solution.
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
# Asking Clarifying Questions ## Overview Bridge the gap between raw user input and structured brainstorming by understanding what the user actually means, not what they said. **Core principle:** Resolve contradictions first, then disambiguate. Conflicting goals must be reconciled before technical clarification - otherwise you're precisely defining the wrong thing. **Announce at start:** "I'm using the asking-clarifying-questions skill to make sure I understand your requirements correctly." ## When to Use Use this skill: - After gathering initial context from user - Before starting brainstorming or design exploration - When user mentions technical terms that could mean multiple things - When scope boundaries are unclear - When assumptions need verification Do NOT use for: - Exploring design alternatives (that's brainstorming) - Proposing architectures (that's brainstorming) - Validating completed designs (that's brainstorming Phase 3) - Asking for initial requirements (that's starting-a-design-plan Phase 1) ## Before Clarifying …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/asking-clarifying-questions@sha256:3bf5fe0cda24406dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260616.eb1d79c, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jan 15, 2026 and Jun 16, 2026, about one every 51 days.
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| git:20260616.eb1d79c latest | 2026-06-16 | eb1d79c | 12,596 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260204.611bfd1 | 2026-02-04 | 611bfd1 | 12,422 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260116.da03082 | 2026-01-16 | da03082 | 12,400 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260115.cf17c55 | 2026-01-15 | cf17c55 | 10,952 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12596 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
ed3dai/ed3d-plugins · 253 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u2g7bfdussu6jcjy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/asking-clarifying-questions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3bf5fe0cda24406dc05704c20395eae2cb64c7a1c83addaa01ca095e6d906c04
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.
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