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investigate-before-asking

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By CarlosCaPe/octorato (GitHub) · coding · 18 stars · scanned at commit cfaeb00

Canonical mandate — before asking the operator any clarifying question, spend 30-60 seconds doing read-only investigation that could answer the question itself. Asking questions answered by a grep, a file read, or a 2-second tool call is rude and slow. Triggers — any time you are about to ask a question, run this skill mentally first.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'investigate-before-asking' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'investigate-before-asking' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named investigate-before-asking already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/CarlosCaPe/octorato' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'cfaeb008b4e13a38256d7358ed654f082122b122' -- 'skills/investigate-before-asking' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/investigate-before-asking' ~/.agents/skills/'investigate-before-asking' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'investigate-before-asking' ~/.claude/skills/'investigate-before-asking' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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