Agent skill

Refine Approach

by mhmzdev in mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app

Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place.

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Install Refine Approach

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app --skill refine-approach -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app refine-approach --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/refine-approach .claude/skills/refine-approach && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
refine-approach
GitHub stars
889
Token cost
~600 tokens
SKILL.md length
274 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place.

  • Works in 6 steps: Get the doc → Interrogate it (answer from the doc +… → Score (Weak / OK / Strong, one line each) → …
  • The user says refine this
  • SKILL.md covers Step 1 — Get the doc, Step 2 — Interrogate it…, Step 3 — Score (Weak / OK /… and Step 4 — Flag the one thing, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Refine Approach is an agent skill from mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app. Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place. Use when the user says "refine this", "tighten the plan", "review the approach", or after brainstorming/planning to harden the doc before building.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming. It works with Flutter. The repository describes itself as: Holy Qur'an application developed via Flutter. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user says refine this
  • Tighten the plan
  • Review the approach
  • After brainstorming/planning to harden the doc before building

Example prompts

  • “refine this”
  • “tighten the plan”
  • “review the approach”
  • “/refine-approach”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Get the doc
  2. Interrogate it (answer from the doc + codebase where you can)
  3. Score (Weak / OK / Strong, one line each)
  4. Flag the one thing
  5. Improve in place
  6. Handoff

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 33edb90. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Refine Approach loads about 600 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 274 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~600

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app at commit 33edb90, republished under its MIT licence (© mhmzdev). 274 words, ~600 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/refine-approach/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
refine-approach
description
Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place. Use when the user says "refine this", "tighten the plan", "review the approach", or after brainstorming/planning to harden the doc before building.
argument-hint
path to a doc in docs/brainstorm/ or docs/exec-plans/

Refine Approach

Improve a thinking document in place — a brainstorm or a plan. Not a rewrite, not new scope: tighter, clearer, more honest.

Step 1 — Get the doc

Given a path, read it whole. Otherwise list docs/brainstorm/ and docs/exec-plans/backlog/ (+ active/) and ask which.

Step 2 — Interrogate it (answer from the doc + codebase where you can)

  • Unclear? A step a fresh agent would misread.
  • Unnecessary? Hypotheticals, gold-plating (solo app, ~1k users, no backend) → cut.
  • Avoided? A hard decision left implicit that /build will trip over (Hive schema change, navigation, splash preload).
  • Assumed? A pattern claimed but not verified — grep for the bloc/repo/route.
  • At risk? Users' cached boxes, permissions, Play policy, version bump — under-treated?
  • Underestimated? A phase that's really three, or a "simple" change that crosses layers.

Step 3 — Score (Weak / OK / Strong, one line each)

  1. Clarity 2. Completeness (every criterion has a verify:; analyze + test are gates) 3. Specificity (real paths, real class names, real commands) 4. YAGNI 5. Scope (one PR / sane phases).

Step 4 — Flag the one thing

Name the single most important issue first.

Step 5 — Improve in place

  • Minor fixes (wording, a missing path, a verify:, marking an assumption) → apply.
  • Substantive (dropping a requirement, restructuring phases, splitting) → propose, get approval, apply.
  • Edit the existing file; keep its structure and frontmatter; update timestamp. Update the docs/exec-plans/index.md row if a plan's problem statement or dependencies changed.

Step 6 — Handoff

Brainstorm refined → /grill-me, then /plan. Plan refined → /build, or /grill-me for a final pass. After two passes, recommend shipping.

What NOT to do

  • Rewrite the whole doc. Add requirements never discussed. Create a separate review file. Remove real constraints, rationale, or open questions.

© mhmzdev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/refine-approach of mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 33edb90

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Questions about Refine Approach

What does Refine Approach do?

Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place. Refine Approach is an agent skill from mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app. Sharpen an existing brainstorm or execution plan for The Holy Qur'an app — score it for clarity, completeness, specificity, YAGNI, and scope, then improve it in place.

When should I use Refine Approach?

Refine Approach fits situations like: the user says refine this; tighten the plan; review the approach; after brainstorming/planning to harden the doc before building.

How do I install Refine Approach in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app --skill refine-approach -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/refine-approach in mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app) into .claude/skills/refine-approach in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Refine Approach in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app --skill refine-approach -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/refine-approach in mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app) into .agents/skills/refine-approach in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Refine Approach in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app --skill refine-approach -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/refine-approach, .gemini/skills/refine-approach, .github/skills/refine-approach and .opencode/skills/refine-approach in your project.

What does Refine Approach need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Refine Approach is instructions for the agent only.

Does Refine Approach access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Refine Approach safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Refine Approach use?

Refine Approach is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Refine Approach use?

About 600 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Refine Approach?

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Who maintains Refine Approach?

mhmzdev (a GitHub user) maintains it in mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app, which has 889 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 10, 2026.

Source: mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.