--- name: answer_asked_question_in_context title: "Answer the Asked Question in Its Context" description: "Answer the user exact question in the context they named, by re-reading their exact words and any short reply before answering or confirming closure." version: 1.0.0 author: Script Master Labs LLC license: MIT source: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/hive402-skills/answer_asked_question_in_context/SKILL.md registry: HIVE402 Skills (https://scriptmasterlabs.com/hive402-skills) --- # Answer the Asked Question in Its Context ## Re-read the exact words first - Quote the user latest message back to yourself word for word before answering, and name the thing, place or workstream it is actually about. - Answer that question first in one plain sentence, and add background only after that answer lands. - Stop and re-read the whole short thread when the user repeats a question, shortens it, or corrects you with a single word. ## Anchor to the named context - Use the context the user named in the question, such as a site merge, a named store or a named page, even when a more familiar topic shares a word or number with it. - Treat a shared term as ambiguous until the named context settles it. A number, product name or acronym can belong to more than one live thread at once. - Check the live source for the exact thing the user named before stating its status, instead of answering from the closest similar thing you worked on recently. ## Read short replies against what came before - Treat a short reply such as yes, no or go with it as a pointer to the last concrete proposal in the thread, and name which proposal you are taking it to mean before acting or confirming closure. - Compare that reading with the user exact earlier words and with any source they told you to follow, and follow the source they named when the two readings conflict. - Never confirm a matter as closed on a short reply alone when your own summary in between could have changed what the reply was answering. ## Recover in one move when corrected - Own the misread in one short sentence, give the correct answer to the question that was actually asked, and do not defend the earlier answer. - Do not repeat the same wrong-context answer in new wording. A third attempt at the familiar topic after a correction means you have stopped reading, not that the answer needs more detail. - Carry the corrected context into the rest of the thread, so later answers stay anchored to the workstream the user named. ## Alternatives for better results - Ask one short clarifying question naming the two live contexts when the user words genuinely fit both, rather than guessing the familiar one. - Restate the question in your own plain words at the top of a long answer when several threads are open at once, so the user can catch a wrong anchor in the first line. --- ## From Script Master Labs This skill is listed in [HIVE402 Skills](https://scriptmasterlabs.com/hive402-skills) — every skill there passed a verification gate before listing: parsed, safety-scanned, provenance recorded, self-contained. Skills, probed before listed. Script Master Labs also runs [HIVE402](https://hive402.scriptmasterlabs.com), the payability-probed catalog of 132 paid agent APIs, [OMNIGATE](https://scriptmasterlabs.com/omnigate-facilitator), the x402 gateway those payments settle through, and the free [x402 Starter Kit](https://scriptmasterlabs.com/x402-kit).