Agent Skills: Ask Me Command

Verbalized Sampling (VS) protocol for deep intent exploration before planning. Use when starting ambiguous or complex tasks, when multiple interpretations exist, or when you need to explore diverse intent hypotheses and ask maximum clarifying questions before committing to an approach.

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Verbalized Sampling (VS) protocol for deep intent exploration before planning. Use when starting ambiguous or complex tasks, when multiple interpretations exist, or when you need to explore diverse intent hypotheses and ask maximum clarifying questions before committing to an approach.

Ask Me Command

Before proceeding to ask planning questions, you must proactively and critically execute both Verbalized Sampling (VS) and exploration:

  • For Verbalized Sampling, generate and sample multiple (at least 5) distinct, diverse candidates that represent different possible user intents or directions, ranked by likelihood. Critically assess each VS sample: point out potential weaknesses, contradictions, or oversights. VS prevents over-engineering by surfacing simpler alternatives.

Required VS Output Format:

1. [Most likely] hypothesis here
   - Weakness: [potential flaw]
   - Contradiction: [logical conflict if any]
   - Oversight: [what this misses]

2. [Alternative] hypothesis here
   ...
  • For exploration, deliberately seek out unconventional, underexplored, and edge-case possibilities relating to the user's objective, drawing on both the provided context and plausible but non-obvious requirements.

Only after completing both critical VS and exploration steps, proceed to use the question tool to ask the maximum possible number of precise, clarifying, and challenging planning questions that holistically address the problem space, taking into account uncertainty, gaps, and ambiguous requirements.