task-clarifier SKILL.md skillA
task-clarifier from dongshuyan/compass-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dongshuyan/compass-skills/task-clarifier@git:20260826.1b2e556Pins git:20260826.1b2e556 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dongshuyan/compass-skills
- Path
skills/task-clarifier/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260826.1b2e556, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 15, 2026
- Size
- 10,838 bytes
- Repository stars
- 758
- License
- MIT
Deep need-clarification skill. Use only when the user explicitly invokes $task-clarifier. Once activated, keep asking until all three goals are met: the user fully understands their own needs, the AI fully understands the user's needs, and the user confirms the AI's understanding is correct. Do not intervene in task execution unless explicitly invoked.
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
# Task Clarifier ## Language Rule **All output directed at the user — questions, options, recommendations, confirmations, summaries — must be written in the user's language.** Detect the user's language from their message. Default to Chinese when unknown. If the user writes Chinese, every word of output must be Chinese. Do not use English in any user-facing output unless the user writes in English. ## Three Goals (all must be met before ending) 1. **Help the user fully understand their own needs** — including dimensions the user has not yet considered, latent contradictions, and implicit assumptions that materially affect the outcome 2. **Help the AI fully understand the user's needs** — completely, specifically, unambiguously; no unconfirmed dimension is filled with a default value 3. **Show the user that the AI has fully understood their needs** — present the understanding in an explicitly verifiable form; all inferences listed separately for the user to confirm one by one ## Startup Reads On activation, silently attempt the following best-effort reads. If any source is unavailable, unsupported, or fails, continue without it — do not block the clarification loop. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dongshuyan/compass-skills/task-clarifier@sha256:dca80e18fa0a1324The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.1b2e556, 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_ufzzv72hasjykjvp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 15, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260826.1b2e556 latest | 2026-08-26 | 1b2e556 | 10,838 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260621.c8e1e1c | 2026-06-21 | c8e1e1c | 10,997 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260621.2134f85 | 2026-06-21 | 2134f85 | 9,753 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.6fe8e3b | 2026-06-16 | 6fe8e3b | 8,660 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260615.1a63803 | 2026-06-15 | 1a63803 | 9,472 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 (10838 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
dongshuyan/compass-skills · 758 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ufzzv72hasjykjvp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dongshuyan/compass-skills/task-clarifier GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dca80e18fa0a1324342ed0577543de41da30e3b00fb2c04b751800d675738792
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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.