what-to-ask
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.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask --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.
# 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 wo
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Question-Selection Rules
- Output Format
- The Five
- If You Only Ask One
- Go Deeper
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the what-to-ask skill 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. 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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill what-to-ask --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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 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.