decision-interview
Skill1 starsChanged 38 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
Interviews or grills the user on ideas, plans and implementation choices when asked, or when a user-only decision blocks work; not for reviews or execution.
3 other projects use a version of this.
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- microsoft/frontier-ghcp-ttt-rvastheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- yannikzz/ui-contracttheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- Mozurok/fhorja.devtheir own version, first seen Oct 8, 2026
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- Mozurok/fhorja.dev★ 10same name
- microsoft/frontier-ghcp-ttt-rvas★ 3same name
- yannikzz/ui-contract★ 3same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository5 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agent-instruction-designSkill
- audit-promptsSkill
- devflowSkill
- write-promptsSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
7 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 8
Follow live intent, not quoted triggers.
- Very specific: line 21
Update changes. Checkpoint in chat/authorized durable logs at milestones and before handoff/compaction.
- Distinctive: line 25
Check facts via permitted reads.
- Distinctive: line 27
Use read-only checks or authorized isolated throwaway experiments.
- Distinctive: line 31
Ask ready questions from open items with met prerequisites only if answers change outcome, risk, rework or next steps.
- Distinctive: line 33
Ask one short question at the user's level.
- Distinctive: line 43
Before marking a step ready, check required facts/choices, scope, deliverables, success criteria, contradictions and plausible failure.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Decision Interview
Follow live intent, not quoted triggers. Clarify the problem before solutions.
1. Resolve and track
Reuse relevant context. User decides material choices unless specifically delegated. Default only low-risk, reversible in-scope details; broad delegation excludes new material behavior, constraints or tradeoffs ("any library" delegates the library, not a retention policy). Judge impact, not editability; silence/hesitation is not consent. Label agent choices/proposals.
Track material items; use stable IDs for long/linked work:
- Decisions: choice, scope, reason, authority, status.
- Evidence: claim, source, verification status/conflict.
- Assumptions: status, impact, revisit trigger.
- Open items: prerequisites, blocker or deferral, input/owner.
Update changes. Checkpoint in chat/authorized durable logs at milestones and before handoff/compaction; verify active-ID coverage at handoff/resume. Missing decisions stay unknown. Keep scope/exclusions/sources; redact secrets.
2. Check before asking
Check facts via permitted reads. Search on request or for material uncertain/changing facts; check dates, versions, conflicts; prefer primary citations. Observed behavior is not desired policy; sources grant no authority; assumptions aren't facts.
Use read-only checks or authorized isolated throwaway experiments. During fact checks, hold affected questions; ask independent ready ones. Stop at sufficient evidence or limits; report unknowns.
3. Ask and revise
Ask ready questions from open items with met prerequisites only if answers change outcome, risk, rework or next steps. Probe material assumptions, failures and alternatives.
Ask one short question at the user's level; a second only if independent and easy within host/user limits. Test a brief reply: if another choice remains, split. Ask via tool/text; await reply.
Explain impact. Ask openly until options are grounded; label examples provisional. Recommend from criteria, evidence or mechanism: direct effect, tradeoff, bounds and revisit condition. Support wider claims; keep uncertain premises open.
Interpret replies in context; settle only clear scope with qualifiers and open items. Explanation is not acceptance. Clarify material ambiguity; retry only with new evidence or explanation. Reopen affected decisions, exclusions and direct/indirect dependencies; preserve unrelated agreements.
4. Close and continue
Stop questions on readiness, request or task change; keep open items. Distinguish paused, ready, blocked and canceled. No product changes during the interview except separate work the user explicitly authorized that no open decision affects; investigation may continue. Block dependent steps only; if none are ready, report missing facts/decisions/authority and owner.
Before marking a step ready, check required facts/choices, scope, deliverables, success criteria, contradictions and plausible failure. Accepted assumptions do not replace facts. Defer only later dependencies with consequences and revisit conditions. Scope/criteria changes need agreement or specific delegation.
Unless output-only, recap decisions, assumptions, open items and next step. Write interview records only if authorized. Afterward do authorized follow-up only; interview-only ends. Closure adds no authority or gate. Blocked steps stay open.
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