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os-ask-simple

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By kharmanskyi/open-steps (GitHub) · coding · 1,282 stars · scanned at commit 4f41027

ALWAYS invoke this skill before asking the user any technical question or offering options, and whenever they ask to be asked in plain words - "ask simple", "ask me simply", "ask me in plain words" - in any language. ALWAYS invoke it too when the user asks for your view on a technical choice: whether it is worth doing, more than the problem needs, or replaceable by something simpler, and which option you would take. Invoke it even when the code makes the answer look obvious: the checks are what…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'os-ask-simple' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'os-ask-simple' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named os-ask-simple already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '4f4102704db28c9285d9ab4617769a8920e7cf86' -- 'skills/os-ask-simple' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/os-ask-simple' ~/.agents/skills/'os-ask-simple' && 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/'os-ask-simple' ~/.claude/skills/'os-ask-simple' (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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