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Construction RFI Response
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-21
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-architecture
Answer a construction request for information so the site can act on it — a direct answer, the drawing or specification reference that supports it, and an explicit statement of whether it changes cost or programme. Use when asked to respond to an RFI, answer a contractor query, or handle a request for information on site, or when RFIs keep coming back for clarification. Produces the answer with its reference, the cost and time implication stated, the instruction status, the distribution list, and the register entry.
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Respond to this RFI about the cladding junction”“The contractor is asking about a detail that is not on the drawings”“How do I answer an RFI that is really a variation?”“Write an RFI response with the cost implication”“Our RFIs keep coming back — what are we doing wrong?”
What to give it
▸The RFI — the question as asked, its number, date received, and the response date required
▸What is actually being asked — sometimes different from what was written; clarify before answering
▸The governing documents — the drawings, specification, and schedules that bear on the question
▸The status on site — whether work is stopped, proceeding, or about to be covered up
▸Who else is affected — other trades, the client, and any consultant whose design is touched
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The answer is the first line, not the conclusion of a paragraph
✓A specific drawing revision or specification clause is cited
✓Clarification versus change is stated explicitly
✓Cost and programme implications are stated even when nil
✓The question answered is the question asked, with any ambiguity resolved and recorded
✓Everyone affected is on the distribution, not just the originator
✓A holding response was issued if the full answer will miss the required date
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Burying the answer under context.** Site acts on the first sentence and gets it wrong.
**Answering without a reference.** Generates the follow-up RFI immediately.
**Staying silent on whether it is a change.** The most expensive omission available in this document.
**Omitting 'no cost implication'.** Its absence is later read as agreement that there was one.
**Answering an ambiguous question as understood.** Resolve it first; a wrong answer gets built.
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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