{"slug":"llm-friendly-context-2","title":"llm-friendly-context","summary":"Clarifies inputs, outputs, success criteria, decisions, and unresolved conditions so downstream consumers can execute without guessing. Use when writing or revising LLM-facing prompts, handoffs, planning artifacts, reviews, reports, or generated instructions.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-26T15:31:18.278415Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/shinpr/claude-code-workflows","stars":683,"forks":103,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-22T10:45:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: llm-friendly-context\ndescription: Clarifies inputs, outputs, success criteria, decisions, and unresolved conditions so downstream consumers can execute without guessing. Use when writing or revising LLM-facing prompts, handoffs, planning artifacts, reviews, reports, or generated instructions.</h2>\n<h1>LLM-Friendly Context</h1>\n<p>The goal is stable downstream execution: the next consumer should know what to read, what to do, what counts as success, and which unresolved decisions can change the result.</p>\n<h2>Core Rules</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><p><strong>Use positive, executable instructions</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>State what the next consumer should do.</li>\n<li>Convert quality policies into positive criteria.</li>\n<li>Keep a prohibition only when it protects an irreversible boundary or shipped contract. Name the protected condition and the allowed action.</li>\n<li>Example: \"Preserve existing public API behavior across the documented compatibility cases.\"</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Make vague instructions concrete</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace subjective terms with observable conditions, paths, commands, schemas, examples, or decision rules.</li>\n<li>Terms that often need clarification when they leave a decision to the next consumer: <code>appropriate</code>, <code>proper</code>, <code>related</code>, <code>existing behavior</code>, <code>optional</code>, <code>as needed</code>, <code>if needed</code>, <code>per convention</code>, unresolved alternatives, <code>TBD</code>, <code>placeholder</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Specify output shape</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the sections, fields, table columns, JSON keys, or checklist items the consumer uses.</li>\n<li>For handoffs, include only produced artifact paths and status fields that control the next transition.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Provide necessary context</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include the purpose, source artifacts, hard constraints, accepted decisions, and unresolved conditions.</li>\n<li>Prefer concrete file paths and section hints over broad module names.</li>\n<li>Follow references while they can change an in-scope decision, action, or verification result.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Decompose complex work into verifiable steps</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Split work with 3+ objectives or sequential dependencies into ordered steps.</li>\n<li>Each step needs a checkpoint: what evidence proves it is complete.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Permit uncertainty explicitly</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolve missing operational detail from referenced artifacts and repository evidence before treating it as unresolved.</li>\n<li>Record remaining uncertainty with its effect, required input, and decision owner. Make reversible repository-local choices when governing evidence resolves them.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Keep constraints proportionate</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add only constraints that reduce ambiguity or preserve a real requirement.</li>\n<li>Keep simple downstream tasks lightweight when the target action, context, and success criteria are already clear.</li>\n<li>Apply <code>minimal</code>, <code>a few lines</code>, and explicit line estimates to the completed diff as one total budget.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Rewrite Patterns</h2>\n<p>Use these rewrites before treating a prompt, handoff, or artifact as complete.</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Ambiguous form</th>\n<th>Rewrite as</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>optional</code> used as an unresolved choice</td>\n<td>Required, omitted, or required only under a named condition</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Multiple alternatives that the next consumer must choose between</td>\n<td>The selected option, or a deterministic decision rule</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>as needed</code> / <code>if needed</code></td>\n<td>The triggering condition and required action</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>per convention</code></td>\n<td>The file, function, test, or documented convention to follow</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>related files</code></td>\n<td>Specific paths, globs, or search hints</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>existing behavior</code></td>\n<td>The observable behavior, source file, test, API response, or UI state to preserve</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>placeholder</code></td>\n<td>Exact temporary value/behavior, allowed dependencies, and verification expectation</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>TBD</code> used as a placeholder for required information</td>\n<td>A blocking unresolved item with owner, required input, and decision effect</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>appropriate</code> / <code>proper</code></td>\n<td>A measurable criterion or checklist</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Handoff Checklist</h2>\n<p>Before sending a prompt or artifact to another consumer, verify:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> The target action is explicit.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Required input paths, source artifacts, and decision-relevant facts are named.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Accepted decisions and constraints use one canonical wording.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Output format or expected status fields are specified.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Success criteria are observable.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Ambiguous expressions have been rewritten or marked as unresolved.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Each instruction states the allowed action; each retained prohibition names the protected condition and allowed alternative.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> The next consumer can complete its scope from the supplied purpose, sources, criteria, and evidence, or return the exact unresolved decision and owner.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Generated Artifact Checklist</h2>\n<p>Before writing or finalizing a generated document:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Each requirement, claim, task, test skeleton, or review finding has enough source context to trace why it exists.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Every executable instruction names the target, action, and expected result.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Verification steps say what to run or observe and what result proves success.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> Each instruction states the allowed action; each retained prohibition names the protected condition and allowed alternative.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> If an artifact is derived from another artifact, copied decisions stay consistent in wording and meaning.</li>\n<li><input disabled=\"disabled\" type=\"checkbox\"> If downstream work is blocked by missing information, the artifact records the missing input, decision owner, and effect.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5531,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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