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stbenjam/steering

v0.1.0

Compact conversation-steering skills for changing direction, explaining decisions, asking for clarity, answering questions without implied action, finishing punted work, delegating research to a subagent, tightening prose, executing decisively, and raising frontend quality.

steering

Three-letter skills for agent wrangling.

See the main installation guide for Claude Code, Codex, and standalone Agent Skills setup.

Skills

  • ask — Pause implementation and ask only the questions needed to produce a high-quality solution.
  • cut — Make the response terser while preserving important reasoning, decisions, and next steps.
  • dig — Revisit superficial or under-verified agent work by investigating its claims, assumptions, evidence, and missing edge cases.
  • dyj — Stop punting and complete the user's requested task. Use after the model evades, defers, or stops before doing work it can perform.
  • lfg — Implement the requested direction immediately using reasonable defaults and no unnecessary follow-up questions.
  • lmk — Spawn a subagent to perform the research task, then report back with the answer.
  • map — Explain the shape of an implementation, its key architectural decisions, and how its main pieces fit together.
  • nah — Abandon the current direction, propose three genuinely different approaches, and recommend the strongest one.
  • qna — Answer genuine questions directly without treating them as implied instructions to take action.
  • wow — Rework a frontend with award-winning visual hierarchy, interaction design, polish, originality, and Webby-worthy quality.
  • wtf — Explain the reasoning, evidence, assumptions, and tradeoffs behind the immediately preceding action or result.

Inspired by bro from dmmulroy/skills.