Skills

asking-user-questions

asking-user-questions is a skill in JetBrains/thinkrail, last changed 27 Oct 2026. It is instructions only: no scripts, no named hosts and no pre-approved tools. Our pattern check flagged nothing at commit ef3d5b6 on 27 Oct 2026.

Pattern check: nothing flagged · commit ef3d5b6 · 27 Oct 2026

Install
From the author
Use when composing an ask_user_question round inside a workflow, or when a workflow skill names it at a question step. Shared norms for the tool — not a workflow, nothing to execute.
Licence
Apache 2.0
Repo stars
4.3k
Folder last changed
27 Oct 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Publisher
JetBrains
Files
1 file
Checked
ef3d5b6 (opens in a new tab) · 27 Oct 2026

Install

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Pinned to commit ef3d5b6, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&
  git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail.git "$tmp" &&
  git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin ef3d5b636ed511603f52dc6bfb3658bbb9178a49 &&
  git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/asking-user-questions &&
  git -C "$tmp" checkout -q ef3d5b636ed511603f52dc6bfb3658bbb9178a49 &&
  mkdir -p .claude/skills &&
  mkdir .claude/skills/asking-user-questions &&
  cp -R "$tmp"/packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/asking-user-questions/. .claude/skills/asking-user-questions/ &&
  rm -rf "$tmp"

If Claude Code was already running and this created the skills folder, run /reload-skills.

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What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit ef3d5b6. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

What it can touch: Instructions only

It is instructions only: no scripts, no named hosts and no pre-approved tools.

Pattern check

Pattern check: nothing flagged · commit ef3d5b6 · 27 Oct 2026

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit ef3d5b6 on 27 Oct 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

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      Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.

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Files

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