asking-user-questions SKILL.md skillA
asking-user-questions from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/asking-user-questions@git:20261027.565bf50Pins git:20261027.565bf50 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jetbrains/thinkrail
- Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/asking-user-questions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261027.565bf50, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 7,989 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,127
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when composing an ask_user_question round inside a workflow, or when a workflow skill names it at a question step. Shared norms for the tool — not a workflow, nothing to execute.
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 User Questions The workflow family's shared norms for `ask_user_question`: how to interview in rounds, what makes a question worth asking, how to shape options, and how to degrade when answers don't come. Process skills name this concept at the steps that ask; *when* to ask — and where the answers get recorded — stays with the referencing skill. ## Interview in rounds until nothing is assumed - Map the subject as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. The **frontier** is every open decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask *now* without guessing at answers you haven't heard. - One call = one **round** = the whole frontier, with no cap on its size. A question whose answer depends on another question still open belongs to a *later* round, never the same one. Never split independent questions across back-to-back calls. - **The call blocks the current run.** Answers arrive as this tool's result. Don't keep working on the blocked step or assume an answer until it arrives — seconds or days later. A composer message sent …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/asking-user-questions@sha256:13c488c279ba4eadThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.565bf50, 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 9 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261027.565bf50 latest | 2026-10-27 | 565bf50 | 7,989 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.1c4bc47 | 2026-10-07 | 1c4bc47 | 7,553 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.09da7f1 | 2026-10-03 | 09da7f1 | 7,445 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.282f5a1 | 2026-09-18 | 282f5a1 | 4,234 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.af69ace | 2026-09-18 | af69ace | 4,360 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.80a1011 | 2026-07-21 | 80a1011 | 4,322 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.03c6ddd | 2026-07-20 | 03c6ddd | 3,670 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.61ad562 | 2026-07-16 | 61ad562 | 3,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f2e4d5a | 2026-07-13 | f2e4d5a | 3,000 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 (7989 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
jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wefnbqysqdqffm4s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/asking-user-questions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/13c488c279ba4ead79183192038604bc10605d5ae578748cc66b92b7ac5ad90c
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