os-ask-simple
os-ask-simple is a Discovery & requirements clarification skill for AI agents, published by kharmanskyi in the open-steps repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates os-ask-simple D (55/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
ALWAYS invoke this skill before asking the user any technical question or offering options, and whenever they ask to be asked in plain words - "ask simple", "ask me simply", "ask me in plain words" - or ask if something is worth doing or if something simpler would do, in any language. Rewrites the question in plain words and always ends with one marked recommendation. A structural choice first passes six checks, shown as a table: effort now, simpler substitute, extra work later, lock-in, over-engineering, easy to undo. Doing nothing is always weighed.
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 55 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 196
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 84 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- Low-risk patterns
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- over-broad allowed-tools ('*')
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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