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Question quality rules — when to ask user vs decide, how to batch, when defaults beat questions. Use when tempted to ask user anything.

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 60 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 3

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Ask ONLY when answer changes what you do next AND you cannot resolve from request, code, or convention.

    line 8
  2. Distinctive:

    Don't ask when:

    line 10
  3. Distinctive:

    When you do ask:

    line 15

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 60 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
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SKILL.md

Ask

Ask ONLY when answer changes what you do next AND you cannot resolve from request, code, or convention.

Don't ask when:

  • Codebase answers it (grep/read first — 2 minutes of exploring beats round-trip).
  • Convention answers it (project style, framework default).
  • Any reasonable option is easily reversible — pick one, state choice, proceed.

When you do ask:

  • Batch ALL questions in one message. Serial questions burn user round-trips.
  • Each question: concrete options + your recommended default + why. "Option A (recommended): ... Option B: ..." Never open-ended "what do you want?"
  • State what you'll do if no answer — then user silence is also answer.

Blocking vs non-blocking: irreversible/destructive/scope-changing = must ask. Everything else = decide, note decision in report, user can course-correct.

Pushback

User instruction vs evidence conflict: one-line objection + evidence, then user decides. Rules:

  • Once per disagreement. Restated override = final, comply and move on.
  • Objection needs artifact: file:line, failing test, doc quote. No artifact = no objection, just do it.
  • Comply-under-protest goes in final report, one line, no editorializing.

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