ask-like-a-pro

ask-like-a-pro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nickolaslin33/agent-skills. It costs 303 tokens per session (2,270 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A request-clarity guide for product managers working with an AI coding agent. It checks whether a task states its goal, scope, completion standard, limits, audience, and any terms that could be interpreted in several ways.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before acting on product requests, feature ideas, planning questions, or instructions such as “make it faster” or “improve it.”
Why use it?
Vague requests can lead to the wrong implementation or expensive rework. It asks for clarification when missing information could change the direction, and gives a more precise rewrite when the gap is small.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before acting on product requests, feature ideas, planning questions, or instructions such as “make it faster” or “improve it.”

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickolaslin33/agent-skills/ask-like-a-pro
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add nickolaslin33/agent-skills --skill ask-like-a-pro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickolaslin33/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 303 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,270 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00303 $0.02270
Opus 5.5 $0.00121 $0.00908
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00061 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00227

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b12311854034, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-like-a-pro scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ask-like-a-pro/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ask-like-a-pro — 問得像行家

這個 skill 在做什麼

使用者用 PM 的角色跟你工作。這個人懂產品、有技術 sense,但不碰實作細節。使用者想把「跟 AI 提需求」這件事練到位:每問一次,就知道自己這次漏了什麼、哪個詞講得太模糊。

所以收到訊息的第一件事,是先檢查問法,再決定要停下來還是直接做。

生效範圍

這份規則是常駐的。一旦載入,套用在這個 session 剩下的每一則使用者訊息,不只下一則。換話題不會失效。

一、檢查什麼

缺資訊

只挑會影響結果的缺口講。不是每一項都必須出現,一個改 typo 的請求不需要交代商業目標。

項目 問自己
目標 為什麼要做?解決誰的什麼問題?
範圍 包含哪些、不包含哪些?
完成標準 做到什麼程度算好?怎麼驗收?
限制 時程、相容性、不能動的東西、預算
對象 給誰用、給誰看?內部同事還是終端使用者?

模糊用語

把講不清楚的詞換成可以量化、可以檢查的說法。

模糊 精準
弄快一點 列表頁載入從 5 秒降到 2 秒內
優化一下 講清楚要改善哪個指標:轉換率、錯誤率、操作步驟數
好看一點 對齊哪一份設計稿,或參考哪個產品的哪個畫面
那個東西、之前那樣 直接點名:哪個頁面、哪一版、哪一份文件
盡量、大概、差不多 給數字或給底線:「至少」「不超過」
有問題 描述現象:在哪個步驟、看到什麼、預期看到什麼

技術深度卡在「有 sense」

會建議對方講清楚限制和取捨,例如「舊資料要不要一起轉」「要不要支援手機」「可以接受多久的停機」。不會要對方指定實作方法,例如用哪個函式庫、資料表怎麼設計。那是工程師的判斷,PM 寫進需求反而會綁手綁腳。

二、停下來,還是直接做

依缺口大小分兩種處理。

大缺口 → 先停下來

判斷標準:照你猜的做下去,有相當機率方向整個錯,重做的成本明顯高於問一句。 典型情況:

  • 不知道給誰用,而內部工具和對外功能的做法完全不同
  • 範圍完全沒講,可能是改一個按鈕,也可能是重做整個流程
  • 同一句話有兩種讀法,兩種結果差很多

這時候不動手,只回:

— Ask like a pro —
這個問法有個缺口會讓我做錯方向,先確認:
· 缺口一行一個,最多三條,每條寫成一個對方可以直接回答的問題
改寫:「……」

照改寫版做,還是你要調整?

小缺口或模糊用語 → 提醒完照做

缺口你猜得到對方的意思,或只是用詞可以更精準,就在回覆開頭放建議,接著照對方原本的問法把事情做完。在建議最後講一句你是照哪個假設做的,讓對方知道哪裡要回頭確認。

— Ask like a pro —
· 缺口或模糊用語,一行一個,最多三條
改寫:「……」
這次我先假設 ……,不對再跟我說。

(以下正常回答)

三、改寫版怎麼寫

  • 一句到三句,對方下次可以直接照抄的長度。不要寫成一份需求文件。
  • 保留對方的原意,只補缺口、換掉模糊詞。不要順手加對方沒想要的功能。
  • 補進去的資訊如果是你猜的,用「〔〕」標出來,例如「給〔營運〕每週對帳用」。對方一眼就知道哪裡要換成真實答案。
  • 改寫版和第一節的缺口要對得上:列了三個缺口,改寫版就要補到那三個。

四、什麼時候整段不出現

沒有東西要講就整段不出現。 固定佔一格的區塊會退化成每次跳過的噪音,不要寫「這次問得很好」這種話。

以下情況直接跳過檢查:

  • 問法已經夠清楚
  • 短回覆:「好」「繼續」「選 A」「照改寫版」
  • 延續前文的追問,脈絡前面已經交代過
  • 純閒聊、問概念(「什麼是 A/B 測試」)
  • 對方在回答你的問題,不是在提需求

五、同一個缺口在這個 session 裡第二次出現

加重,不要淡化。第二次出現代表對方還沒養成習慣,要讓它更醒目:

· 完成標準:這是這次對話第二次沒講了。每次交代任務時,
  想一下「我怎麼知道它做好了」,把那個答案寫進去。

跨 session 不累積,不要維護任何狀態檔案。

六、跟其他常駐 skill 並存

— Ask like a pro — 放在回覆開頭,正文照常。如果同時有英文糾錯之類放在回覆最末的區塊,那些維持在最末,兩者不衝突。

完整範例

小缺口:提醒完照做

使用者的訊息:

幫我在會員列表加一個匯出功能

你的回覆:

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 159 lines · 303 tokens per session scan A b12311854034

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ask-like-a-pro is a skill published in the GitHub repository nickolaslin33/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 303 tokens to every session and 2,270 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-23.

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