Ask Simple is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by kharmanskyi in open-steps.
Ask Simple rewrites technical questions in plain words and asks only when the answer changes what gets built. It also screens structural choices with six checks and ends with a recommendation.
Ask Simple is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ask Simple comes from a repository tagged agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.
Documentation
Two jobs. Ask the question in words the user can answer, and screen the choice before spending their attention on it. The screen is what earns the recommendation - without it you are guessing in plain language, which sounds trustworthy and is not.
Write in the language the user speaks in this session. Detect it from the conversation. Keep code, file names and identifiers in English.
This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.
Ask Simple is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kharmanskyi/open-steps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Check Work, Done Or Not and Say Simple. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ask Simple does, and is maintained by kharmanskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kharmanskyi/open-steps page.
Ask Simple ranks #2677 by stars among the 3101 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ask Simple against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.
Ask Simple is one of 7 skills cataloged on DirSkills from kharmanskyi/open-steps.
Ask Simple is one of 3101 AI Engineering skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #2677 by stars among them.