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Ask First

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: code-quality  ·  Last updated:
Use when user input lacks a concrete object, action, or constraint and the agent should clarify tacit intent before implementation, refactoring, or verification.

From the source SKILL.md

用户说出来的往往少于他想要的。在 AI 动手之前，把缄默意图拉到显式。

What this skill does

Ask First is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ask-first/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user input lacks a concrete object, action, or constraint and the agent should clarify tacit intent before implementation, refactoring, or verification.

Who uses this skill

The Ask First Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ask-first
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-first/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/ask-first/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ask-first/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ask-first/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ask-first\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Ask First [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-first/
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@misc{ask-first-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Ask First [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-first/}
}

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