Install
npx skills add garrytan/gbrain --skill resolve-before-asking
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add garrytan/gbrain
/plugin install gbrain@gbrain
This skill is part of the plugin “gbrain”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the resolve-before-asking skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about resolve-before-asking
What does the resolve-before-asking skill do?
Gate on identity questions to the user. Before any "who is X?" (or role / relationship question) reaches the user, exhaust the brain's lookup chain: think → search + page read → mounted sources → timeline/graph → web. If escalation survives the chain, ask WITH a hypothesis, never a bare unknown. Also owns the no-placeholders-at-ingest rule: pages created during bulk ingestion get their relationship/role resolved immediately.
How do I install resolve-before-asking?
In a terminal: npx skills add garrytan/gbrain --skill resolve-before-asking. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use resolve-before-asking?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is resolve-before-asking safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
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