Ask codebase questions

Skill fredrick84823/fstack/skills/ask-codebase-questions

Create the Questions artifact before codebase research, design, planning, or implementation. Use for feature tickets, architecture changes, unclear code work, CRISPY/QRSPI Questions phase, or when the agent needs to define code-answerable unknowns and human questions before researching or planning.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add fredrick84823/fstack --skill ask-codebase-questions

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SKILL.md

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Ask Codebase Questions

Create a focused Questions artifact before research or planning. The goal is to define unknowns, not to solve the task.

Process

1. Read Task Context

Read the ticket, PRD, issue, or user-provided task text fully. If the task names specific files, read those files before writing questions.

2. Write Questions

Path:

If thoughts/ exists: thoughts/shared/qds/YYYY-MM-DD-description-questions.md
Otherwise: qds/YYYY-MM-DD-description-questions.md

Rules:

Ask only questions that affect architecture, interfaces, data flow, rollout, or verification.
Separate code-answerable questions from human-only questions.
Include a short "Unknowns to Research" section for research-codebase.
Stop after writing questions when human answers are required.
If code-answerable unknowns remain, pass only those questions to research-codebase; do not pass the proposed solution or ask it to design.

Template:

# Questions: [Task]

## Task Summary
[1-3 sentences]

## Code-Answerable Questions
- [Question]

## Human Questions
- [Question]

## Unknowns to Research
- [Question to pass into research-codebase without proposed solution details]

Hand Off

After the questions are answered or researched, recommend:

Next: /design-concept <questions-path> [research-doc-path]