blindspot-pass
Surface the user's unknown unknowns before work starts. Use when the user is entering an unfamiliar codebase area, an unfamiliar domain (design, video, infra), or explicitly asks for a "blindspot pass" or to find their "unknown unknowns.
npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill blindspot-pass --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Blindspot pass The user is about to work in territory they don't know well. Your job is not to do the task yet. Your job is to show them what they don't know they don't know, so their next prompt is better. ## Steps 1. Ask (or infer from context) two things: what they're trying to do, and what their experience level is with this specific area. Their starting point changes everything. 2. Explore the relevant territory yourself: the module, its history, its conventions, prior art in the repo, and (if the domain is external) what practitioners consider table stakes. 3. Report back in four sections: - **Landmines** — the mistakes someone new here typically makes, and any repo-specific potholes (deprecated paths, misleading names, half-migrated patterns). - **Hidden context** — decisions already made that constrain the work (why the code is shaped this way, invariants that must hold). - **What good looks like** — 2-3 examples of the pattern done well, from this repo or elsewhere, so they can calibrate quality. - **Questions you should be asking** — the 3-5 questions an expert would ask before starting, with your best guess at each answer. 4. End with a rewritten version of their origi
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What does the blindspot-pass skill do?
Surface the user's unknown unknowns before work starts. Use when the user is entering an unfamiliar codebase area, an unfamiliar domain (design, video, infra), or explicitly asks for a "blindspot pass" or to find their "unknown unknowns.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills --skill blindspot-pass --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From Neeeophytee/finding-unknowns-skills, a repository with 298 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.