Task Clarifier

Task Clarifier is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by dongshuyan in compass-skills.

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Install Task Clarifier

Copy Task Clarifier into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/task-clarifier ~/.claude/skills/task-clarifier

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/task-clarifier/SKILL.md in dongshuyan/compass-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/task-clarifier
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Task Clarifier does

Task Clarifier asks structured questions to resolve a user's goals, constraints, and success criteria before work begins. Use it when a request is vague, conflicting, or needs explicit confirmation.

Task Clarifier is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Task Clarifier comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills, ai-agents and ai-coding-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Task Clarifier

Language Rule

All output directed at the user — questions, options, recommendations, confirmations, summaries — must be written in the user's language. Detect the user's language from their message. Default to Chinese when unknown. If the user writes Chinese, every word of output must be Chinese. Do not use English in any user-facing output unless the user writes in English.

Three Goals (all must be met before ending)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Task Clarifier

What else does dongshuyan publish alongside Task Clarifier?
Task Clarifier is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dongshuyan/compass-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Humanizer, Run History Skill Builder and Run History Skill Upgrader. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Task Clarifier does, and is maintained by dongshuyan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dongshuyan/compass-skills page.
How does Task Clarifier compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Task Clarifier ranks #1720 by stars among the 2451 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 Task Clarifier against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.