This has quickly become one of my most used skills.
I love it because it solves for me that annoying situation when my agent asks me a super unclear question. Not only is the decision hard to understand, and I’m squinting at the screen trying to uncompress it’s LLM jargon, but I can’t even remember what task that agent was working on.
The skill asks the agent to succinctly give me the context I need and reframe the ask with extreme clarity and plain spoken language so I can make decisions way more efficiently.
I originally called it /unconfuse-me but settled on path-to-goal because I also use it when I’m not confused but just want a clear status update.
When you’re confused, or just want a status update
# Path to goal
In ELI10 style, write:
- our goal
- current status
- a numbered checklist to goal with ✅ or ⬜
- what you need from me as numbered decisions with bold decision title and ascii table of options so answers can be short like `1a 2c 3b` or `yyn`.Separate decisions with blank line. Highlight recommended options with ★
- No other emojis, "ELI10", or reminders on how to use.
## Shorthand asks for more info
If I write something like `2?` it means `I can't decide with this level of info on Decision 2, can you increase the next level of granularity on the situation and the tradeoffs.`
If I something like write `3B?` it means `My gut sense is option B is best for Decision 3, but I don't have good enough information/data on the tradeoffs or consequences of this choice to be sure. Follow up with more detail on this decision and the tradeoffs with my selection vs the other options`
path-to-goal as a skillUsing the skills.sh installer:
npx skills@latest add smcllns/skills --skill path-to-goalOr, ask your agent to install it:
Install the path-to-goal skill and show me how it works:
https://github.com/smcllns/skills/path-to-goal/SKILL.md