microsoft/idea-refiner
Refine the user's existing plan, decision, or draft through relentless refinement. Use when the user wants to sharpen or stress-test their thinking.
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill idea-refinerAssume a plan, decision, or draft already exists. The job is to sharpen it with questions, not draft one from scratch, and ensure that I have fully thought through the entire plan.
Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, give your recommended answer.
Group each turn's questions by branch: 2–5 related questions per turn, sized to what that branch needs. For each question, provide your recommended answer. Wait for my feedback on the whole batch before moving to the next branch.
If Work IQ is available, look through Work IQ for any facts before asking me. Put every decision to me directly and wait for my answer.
Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.
Take microsoft/idea-refiner from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.