Ask

Skill shikanime-labs/skills/skills/workflow/ask

A curated catalog of self-improved agent skills for Hermes and compatible agents

Install

npx -y skills add shikanime-labs/skills --skill ask

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One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

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Ask

You don't remember every skill, so ask. A router over the workflow catalog.

First time in a repo

bootstrap — run once before anything else. Discovers the tracker, labels, and docs layout and writes docs/agents/*. If to-spec, to-tickets, or triage start guessing where issues live, this hasn't been run yet.

The main flow: idea → ship

The route most work travels:

Sharpen the idea in conversation against the codebase — terminology into CONTEXT.md, decisions into ADRs (docs/adr/).
to-spec — turn the thread into a spec and publish it as a GitHub issue (the validation gate). Set its milestone, assignee, and project at creation; label it ready-for-human — a human approves direction before any code.
Multi-session build? to-tickets — split the spec into tracer-bullet tickets with blocking edges. Single-session? Skip to step 5.
triage — move issues through the state machine as work is evaluated.
implement — build a ready-for-agent ticket: TDD at the seams, on the minimalism ladder, closing with code-review, then commit.

Pick by intent

You want to...	Reach for
Set this repo up for the workflow	`bootstrap`
Turn a discussion into a validated feature	`to-spec`
Break a spec into buildable tickets	`to-tickets`
Sort / label / brief issues	`triage`
Build a spec or ticket	`implement`
Plan / cut a release from a milestone	release management (`docs/agents/workflow.md`)
Review a branch/PR (Standards + Spec + Stability)	`code-review`
Add stability/invariant tests over generated data	property-based (in `implement`)
Find what to delete / is this over-engineered	minimalism audit (`docs/agents/workflow.md`)
See the shortcuts we deferred	deferral ledger (`docs/agents/workflow.md`)
Simplest-solution discipline on any coding task	minimalism ladder (always on)

Context hygiene

Keep steps 1–2 in one unbroken context window. When splitting into tickets, clear context between implementing each one — a fresh window per ticket.