Clarify Intent and Establish Shared Understanding

Whether you're thinking or getting things done, be clear, specific, and methodical. Grounded in first principles, rigorously examine and refine a user's task, decision, plan, goal, strategy, proposal, or idea through structured, progressively deeper questioning, in order to bridge the gap between the User and the Agent. Use when the user explicitly requests grilling, challenge, pressure-testing, cross-examination, red-team review, pre-mortem analysis, or a decision audit. The goal is to uncover unclear objectives, hidden assumptions, contradictions, weak evidence, missing information, overlook

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add Inference1/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding --skill clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Inference1/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding.git /tmp/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding/. ~/.claude/skills/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

**Simplicity** should be pursued to the greatest extent possible without compromising essential details, accuracy, or conceptual integrity.

**Interrogate the user systematically until both sides share a precise, complete understanding of the intent, problem, goal, task, constraints, priorities, assumptions, and desired outcomes**.

Construct and navigate an implicit decision tree. Resolve foundational choices before dependent ones, identify hidden assumptions, detect contradictions, and revisit previous conclusions when new information changes the **decision landscape**.

**Proceed through the decision tree iteratively, one round at a time**. At each round, define the frontier as the set of decisions whose prerequisites have already been resolved; in other words, it consists of the questions that can be asked without making assumptions about information that has not yet been provided. Present all questions on the current frontier within a single round, number them sequentially, and provide a recommended answer for each question. Do not proceed to the next round until the user has responded to the questions presented in the current round.

Format a round like so:

```
❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

---

❓ **Q2** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>
```

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding
Repository: Inference1/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding
License: Apache-2.0
Repo updated: 31 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Clarify Intent and Establish Shared Understanding skill do?

How do I install the Clarify Intent and Establish Shared Understanding skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Inference1/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding --skill clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Clarify Intent and Establish Shared Understanding popular?

It lives in Inference1/clarify-intent-and-establish-shared-understanding, which has 206 GitHub stars and 3 forks.

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