Agent skill

What To Ask

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install What To Ask

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills what-to-ask --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/what-to-ask .claude/skills/what-to-ask && 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
what-to-ask
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
664 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation.

  • Works in 5 steps: Leverage order, not checklist order: the… → Every question gets its bad-answer tell:… → The writing question is always in the… → …
  • Asked what should I ask before signing this
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The… and Output Format, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

What To Ask is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation. Use when asked what should I ask before signing this, I'm about to buy X what do I check, what questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR, or what am I forgetting. Produces the five highest-leverage questions for the specific situation with why each matters and what a bad answer sounds like, plus the pointer to the full decoder when one exists.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Real estate. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked what should I ask before signing this
  • Im about to buy X what do I check
  • What questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR
  • What am I forgetting

Example prompts

  • “/what-to-ask”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Leverage order, not checklist order: the five are chosen by expected-cost-prevented, not thoroughness — the question that voids the deal…
  2. Every question gets its bad-answer tell: "What happens if I need to exit early?" matters less than knowing that "oh, we're flexible, we'll…
  3. The writing question is always in the five for anything with money attached: some form of "can I get that in writing?" — because the…
  4. Route to depth when it exists: lease → lease-decoder; job offer → benefits-decoder; contractor → home-contractor-quote-decoder; car lot →…
  5. Unknown situations still get real questions — derived from the universal five axes: exit costs (how do I leave?), change costs (what can…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

What To Ask loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 126 tokens; SKILL.md has 664 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~126
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 664 words, ~1,258 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/what-to-ask/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
what-to-ask
description
Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation. Use when asked what should I ask before signing this, I'm about to buy X what do I check, what questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR, or what am I forgetting. Produces the five highest-leverage questions for the specific situation with why each matters and what a bad answer sounds like, plus the pointer to the full decoder when one exists.

What To Ask Skill

Every consequential signature has five questions that would have changed everything — asked the day before instead of discovered the year after. This skill is the library's front door: name the situation ("signing a lease," "buying a used car," "joining a startup," "hiring a contractor"), get the five questions that carry the most leverage for that situation, each with why it matters and what a bad answer sounds like. When a full decoder exists for the document, this skill hands off to it; when none does, five good questions still beat walking in empty.

What This Skill Produces

  • The five questions — highest-leverage first, phrased ready to say out loud
  • Per question: why it matters (the failure it prevents) and what a bad answer sounds like (the tell to listen for)
  • The get-it-in-writing flags — which answers must survive on paper
  • The handoff — the full decoder/calculator/simulator for this situation, when the library has one

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The situation — what's being signed/bought/agreed, with whom, and when (tomorrow changes the advice from "research" to "triage")
  • The stakes and the worry — money involved, and the thing they're privately nervous about (the fifth question is usually theirs)
  • What's already known — documents in hand get routed to their decoder; verbal-only situations get the questions that force things onto paper

Framework: The Question-Selection Rules

  1. Leverage order, not checklist order: the five are chosen by expected-cost-prevented, not thoroughness — the question that voids the deal outranks ten that adjust it. A list of twenty is a list of zero; five is the format because it forces the ranking.
  2. Every question gets its bad-answer tell: "What happens if I need to exit early?" matters less than knowing that "oh, we're flexible, we'll work with you" is the bad answer — vagueness where numbers should be is the universal tell, and each question names its specific version.
  3. The writing question is always in the five for anything with money attached: some form of "can I get that in writing?" — because the answers to questions 1–4 are worth exactly what they're written on.
  4. Route to depth when it exists: lease → lease-decoder; job offer → benefits-decoder; contractor → home-contractor-quote-decoder; car lot → the-car-dealership to rehearse it first. The five questions are the door; the decoder is the room.
  5. Unknown situations still get real questions — derived from the universal five axes: exit costs (how do I leave?), change costs (what can they change on me?), the money's full shape (what's the all-in number?), failure modes (what happens when something goes wrong?), and verification (how do I check what you just told me?). Any situation on earth maps onto those.
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Output Format

Before you [sign/buy/agree]: [situation]

The Five

1. "[The question, verbatim]" Why: [the failure it prevents] · Bad answer sounds like: "[the tell]" · [📝 get in writing]

[…2–5, same shape…]

If You Only Ask One

[Which, and why it carries the most weight here]

Go Deeper

[The library's full treatment for this situation, linked — or "no decoder yet; the five axes above are the map"]

Quality Checks

  • Exactly five questions, leverage-ranked — not a padded checklist
  • Every question has a bad-answer tell, specific to it
  • The in-writing flag appears wherever money does
  • The user's stated private worry became one of the five
  • The handoff link appears when the library covers the situation

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not exceed five — the ranking discipline is the product; a sixth question weakens the first
  • Do not ask questions the user can't act on — every answer must change something
  • Do not phrase questions adversarially — the counterpart is a person; the tells do the detecting
  • Do not skip the handoff to save face — five questions are the trailer, not the movie
  • Do not generate generic questions for a specific situation — "what are the terms?" is what this skill exists to replace

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "What should I ask before signing this?"
  • "I'm about to buy X what do I check."
  • "What questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR?"
  • "What am I forgetting?"

© mohitagw15856, 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 skills/what-to-ask of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about What To Ask

What does What To Ask do?

Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation. What To Ask is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation.

When should I use What To Ask?

What To Ask fits situations like: asked what should I ask before signing this; im about to buy X what do I check; what questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR; what am I forgetting.

How do I install What To Ask in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/what-to-ask in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/what-to-ask in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install What To Ask in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/what-to-ask in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/what-to-ask in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use What To Ask 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/what-to-ask, .gemini/skills/what-to-ask, .github/skills/what-to-ask and .opencode/skills/what-to-ask in your project.

What does What To Ask need to run?

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

Does What To Ask 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 What To Ask 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 What To Ask use?

What To Ask 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 What To Ask use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains What To Ask?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.