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Shorthand to make Claude convert a wall of prose into structured questions via the AskUserQuestion tool. Invoke with /ask.

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$ npx -y skills add bendrucker/claude --skill ask --agent claude-code

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ask.SKILL.md
name: ask
description: Shorthand to make Claude convert a wall of prose into structured questions via the AskUserQuestion tool. Invoke with /ask.
disable-model-invocation: true
effort: low

Ask

Turn the preceding prose into `AskUserQuestion` calls.

  • One question per open decision. Don't bury choices in a paragraph.
  • Prefer options with a `preview` (snippet, diff, config, sample output). It lets me accept a suggestion and add my own notes on top.
  • Only ask decisions that are mine. Decide obvious defaults yourself and say so.
  • Every question needs a recommended option. If you can't recommend one, you don't understand it well enough to ask. Ask more, smaller questions instead of inferring intent from one blind pick.
  • Err toward more questions. Invoking this means I want to be asked.
  • A batch is answered in parallel, so an answer can't shape a later question in the same batch. When a follow-up depends on an earlier answer, split the batches.
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Which coding agents can use ask?
ask installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.