Stop Vague

Rewrites vague workplace feedback (performance reviews, 1:1 notes, peer feedback, promotion write-ups) into specific, behavioral, actionable feedback. Use when the user pastes feedback that sounds like "great job", "needs more ownership", "be more strategic", or asks to sharpen, fix, or score feedback before delivering it ("use stop-vague", "sharpen this feedback", "score this feedback").

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Install

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

npx skills add sumanbukka/stop-vague --skill stop-vague

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sumanbukka/stop-vague.git /tmp/stop-vague
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/stop-vague/. ~/.claude/skills/stop-vague

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

From the SKILL.md

# Stop Vague

Most feedback fails because the writer knows what they mean and the reader does not. "Needs more ownership" tells the reader something is wrong and nothing about what to do on Monday. This skill finds the vague parts, asks for or infers the missing facts, and rewrites the feedback so a person could act on it or repeat it back.

## Workflow

1. Check "When to step back" first. Then read the draft. Note who it is for (the person, their manager, a calibration committee) and whether it is praise, correction, or both.
2. Score it on the five dimensions below, 1 to 10 each.
3. List every violation of the rules, quoting the exact phrase.
4. If key facts are missing (no example, no outcome), ask up to three short questions. If the user cannot answer, rewrite with clearly marked placeholders like [date] or [outcome] instead of inventing facts.
5. Rewrite with all violations fixed. Keep the writer's voice and level of warmth. Write in the language the feedback was written in, and keep names, dates, and quotes exactly as given.
6. Re-score, counting only what the writer provided. A dimension whose content is a [placeholder] cannot score above 6. If any dimension is below 7 and the missing facts can be supplied, ask for them or rewrite again; if they cannot, say what is still missing instead of raising the score.

Never invent events, quotes, numbers, or outcomes. A sharp but fabricated example is worse than a vague true one.

## Sensitive content

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: stop-vague
Repository: sumanbukka/stop-vague
License: MIT
Repo updated: 26 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Stop Vague skill do?

How do I install the Stop Vague skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add sumanbukka/stop-vague --skill stop-vague. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Stop Vague popular?

It lives in sumanbukka/stop-vague, which has 5 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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