What do I need to use What To Ask?

The situation; The stakes and the worry; What's already known.

Is What To Ask free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

What To Ask

Q: How do I know the What To Ask output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Exactly five questions, leverage-ranked — not a padded checklist; Every question has a bad-answer tell, specific to it; The in-writing flag appears wherever money does; The user's stated private worry became one of the five.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06⚖️ rules checked 2026-07-18Not yet expert-reviewed · review it 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-decoders

Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation. Use when asked what should I ask before signing this, I'm about to buy X what do I check, what questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR, or what am I forgetting. Produces the five highest-leverage questions for the specific situation with why each matters and what a bad answer sounds like, plus the pointer to the full decoder when one exists.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“What should I ask before signing this?”“I'm about to buy X what do I check.”“What questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR?”“What am I forgetting?”

What to give it

▸The situation — what's being signed/bought/agreed, with whom, and when (tomorrow changes the advice from "research" to "triage")

▸The stakes and the worry — money involved, and the thing they're privately nervous about (the fifth question is usually theirs)

▸What's already known — documents in hand get routed to their decoder; verbal-only situations get the questions that force things onto paper

✅ 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.

✓Exactly five questions, leverage-ranked — not a padded checklist

✓Every question has a bad-answer tell, specific to it

✓The in-writing flag appears wherever money does

✓The user's stated private worry became one of the five

✓The handoff link appears when the library covers the situation

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not exceed five — the ranking discipline is the product; a sixth question weakens the first

Do not ask questions the user can't act on — every answer must change something

Do not phrase questions adversarially — the counterpart is a person; the tells do the detecting

Do not skip the handoff to save face — five questions are the trailer, not the movie

Do not generate generic questions for a specific situation — "what are the terms?" is what this skill exists to replace

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 -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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