What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents jumping into implementation before fully understanding the project context and desired outcomes, avoiding wasted effort caused by hidden assumptions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Context Exploration: Guides reviewing files, docs, and recent changes before asking questions, so every design starts anchored in reality.
- Guided Clarification: Enforces one clarifying question at a time, ensuring purpose, constraints, and success criteria are well understood.
- Design Proposal Workflow: Requires presenting 2-3 approaches with trade-offs, capturing the chosen design in a committed spec, conducting a self-review, obtaining user sign-off, and gating implementation through writing-plans.
Quick Start
Prompt the assistant to assess the project context, ask clarifying questions, outline alternative approaches, draft the approved design, and then request implementation planning.