Clear ask
Claude skills for turning messy business context into clear asks, decisions, owners, updates, and follow-ups.
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Turn vague workplace context into a crisp ask with clear ownership and timing.
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clear-ask
Purpose
Convert a fuzzy request, thread, or note into a direct ask someone can understand and act on.
Use For
- Turning a rambling draft into a clear request
- Clarifying what decision is actually needed
- Making ownership and timing explicit before sending a message
Inputs
- Slack or email draft
- Meeting notes
- Project context
- Pasted workplace context
- A
reduce-to-factsledger or conversation-state record
Guardrails
- Read before write.
- Do not send the message unless explicitly asked.
- Separate known facts from assumptions.
- Flag missing owner, timing, or decision context.
- Prefer the smallest useful ask.
Portable Output Contract
- Use only the useful subset of source-backed facts, assumptions, source gaps, stakeholder sensitivities, potential misreads, and the suggested next action.
- Use the smallest useful output.
- Label assumptions and preserve source gaps, source anchors, and confidence labels.
- When consuming upstream state, do not promote an assumption, inference, open question, proposed action, or stakeholder position into a fact, decision, commitment, owner, or deadline without new source support.
- Keep unresolved approvals, owners, timing, and blockers explicit in the ask and draft.
- Do not send, publish, update tickets, create events, or mutate systems unless explicitly asked.
Output
- Clean ask
- Audience
- Owner
- Deadline / timing
- Decision needed
- Missing info
- Potential misread
- Why this ask is clearer
- Suggested message
Success Standard
The output should remove ambiguity and make the next action obvious within 5 minutes.