ask
The ask skill answers conceptual questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions by providing explanations rather than implementations. Use it when users ask questions beginning with "why," "what does this do," "explain," or similar understanding-focused prompts, even when referencing specific files or code snippets. The skill prioritizes verifying answers against actual source code and current external information rather than relying on trained knowledge, and deliberately stops at explanation without suggesting code changes or solutions.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avibebuilder/claude-prime /tmp/ask && cp -r /tmp/ask/.claude/skills/ask ~/.claude/skills/askSKILL.md
Think before answering: do you have verified evidence, or are you about to rely on assumption? ## Verify Before You Answer Your trained knowledge is stale and your memory of this codebase may be wrong. Verify from source before claiming anything: - **Question about specific code?** → Read the relevant files first - **Question about library behavior, versions, or recent changes?** → Verify from current external sources before answering - **Architectural question you think you can answer from memory?** → Still check the actual codebase — confirm before claiming ## Explain, don't implement This skill ends at the explanation — the user decides what to do next. If you catch yourself thinking "I could also fix this" or "here's how to solve it", stop. Explain only. This is not a coding session. No code blocks — not even to illustrate format or behavior. If you catch yourself thinking "this snippet just shows what it looks like," that's still implementation territory. Explain in prose. ## Question <question>$ARGUMENTS</question>
Browser automation CLI for AI agents. Use when the user needs to interact with websites, including navigating pages, filling forms, clicking buttons, taking screenshots, extracting data, testing web apps, or automating any browser task. Triggers include requests to "open a website", "fill out a form", "click a button", "take a screenshot", "scrape data from a page", "test this web app", "login to a site", "automate browser actions", or any task requiring programmatic web interaction.
Use this skill for any Python backend work in this project: building FastAPI endpoints, writing service functions, defining Pydantic/SQLModel schemas, running Alembic migrations, or debugging 422 errors. Essential for authentication and authorization patterns — setting up get_current_user, is_superuser checks, admin-only guards, role-based access, and dependency injection chains like Depends(). Also covers middleware, background tasks, async SQLAlchemy sessions, ORM relationship loading, and request/response design. Activate whenever the question involves Python API code, FastAPI patterns, or backend architecture in this codebase. Not for frontend, Docker, CI/CD, or infrastructure.
Implement, build, create, or add any feature, endpoint, page, component, or functionality. Use this skill whenever the user asks you to write new code or make code changes — whether it's adding an API endpoint, building a UI page, creating an export feature, wiring up a webhook, implementing a search/filter, or any other hands-on coding task. This is the default skill for all 'build this', 'add this', 'create this', 'wire up', 'implement' requests. Covers the full cycle: clarify requirements, plan if needed, write code, verify, and review. Do NOT use for pure research, debugging, documentation, or explanation — only when the user wants working code delivered.
Use when the user wants to save knowledge as a file so others don't have to rediscover it — \"turn this into a doc\", \"write this up\", \"document how X works\", \"we figured this out and want to capture it\", \"nobody should have to figure this out again\". Covers any request to create or update durable written artifacts: onboarding guides, runbooks, ADRs, API docs, architecture notes, postmortems, changelogs, setup guides. The trigger: user wants knowledge captured in a file for future reference, not just a conversation. Do NOT use when still making decisions (→ give-plan), just asking for explanation without a file (→ ask), or writing code (→ cook).
Investigate unexpected behavior and mysterious bugs. Use when the cause of a problem is unknown and the user needs to understand WHY something is happening — symptoms like: sudden unexplained changes in metrics or behavior, works locally but not in staging/production, inconsistent or intermittent failures, correct code producing wrong results, operations succeeding but having no effect, environment-specific failures, duplicate executions, stale data, or any \"why did this change?\" or \"why is this happening?\" situation. Covers infrastructure anomalies (cache hit rates dropping, latency spikes, queue behavior shifts) as well as code bugs. The key signal is confusion about root cause, not a request to implement a known fix. Do NOT use for feature requests, known fixes, planning, or documentation tasks.
Brainstorms and debates approaches, then drives toward an actionable decision. Use whenever someone needs a thinking partner for a decision they're facing: 'discuss', 'debate', 'brainstorm', 'weigh options', 'tradeoffs', 'should I do X or Y', 'help me decide', 'I'm torn between', 'sanity check my thinking', or 'what do you think about'. The user must be asking for help reasoning through a choice — not asking to build, fix, evaluate, plan, or modify something (even if the topic involves this skill itself). Picks the right decision lens, surfaces tradeoffs and blind spots, pushes back when reasoning is genuinely weak, and never implements.
ALWAYS activate when the user's query involves Docker in any way — even if it also matches other skills. If the words docker, Dockerfile, docker-compose, compose.yml, container, or image appear in the query, this skill MUST be used. Covers: writing or editing Dockerfiles and compose files, adding services (postgres, redis, etc.) to compose, volume mounts and data persistence, docker build failures (layer caching, npm install issues), healthchecks and service startup ordering (depends_on), environment variables in containers, port mapping, container crashes and exit codes (OOM/137), non-root users, multi-stage builds, image optimization, .dockerignore, and deploying to container runtimes. Takes priority over general implementation or debugging skills when Docker infrastructure is the subject.
Fetch up-to-date documentation for any library, framework, API, or service into context. Use when the user wants to look up API references, check function signatures or required fields, find feature-specific docs, or verify how an external tool actually works. Triggers for queries about third-party libraries like Stripe, SQLAlchemy, Tailwind, FastAPI, shadcn, Drizzle, Hono, Better Auth — any time the answer lives in official docs rather than in the project codebase. Use this instead of guessing from trained knowledge, which is stale.