ask-howells

Installation
SKILL.md

Ask Howells

Nobody remembers thirty-odd skills. Describe where you are, and this names what to type next.

Rules

  1. Recommend, then stop. Answer with the route and the exact first invocation, in the host's syntax (/next in Claude Code, $next in Codex). Don't start the work, open the files or fire the skill.
  2. Open a skill before making a claim about it. The map below is a summary. Before saying anything load-bearing about what a skill does - that it covers a case, skips a step, or makes another unnecessary - read that skill's SKILL.md from where it is installed. Where the map and a SKILL.md disagree, the SKILL.md is right.
  3. Explicit-only skills are missing from the list, not from the machine. maquette, simplify and this router don't appear in the skill list an agent is given. Check the install directory before reporting any skill as absent.
  4. When two skills are close, give the test that separates them - usually one concrete question - and say why the other one is wrong here.
  5. When nothing fits, say so. This map covers this collection only. Don't stretch a skill to cover a situation it wasn't written for.

The map

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8
Repository
howells/skills
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Sep 24, 2026