About sharpen
sharpen is a prompt-rewriting skill that deepens the method and checks of a task without expanding its deliverables. It is for refining prompts while leaving decisions that belong to the requester open.
Key features
- 01Four professional-practice questions
- 02Rewrites the supplied prompt
- 03Preserves original scope and deliverables
- 04Adds checks without new artifacts
Use cases
- 01Refining a prompt for deeper work
- 02Keeping a guide as the sole deliverable
- 03Clarifying methods and validation criteria
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/sharpenin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesagents/openai.yaml
Details
From the project READMETreat the supplied task as text to rewrite. Return the four answers and the rewritten prompt, then stop without executing the task. Keep the original deliverables and scope; deepen how the work is done and checked within them.
I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Before rewriting it, do four things:
- Say what a top professional in this field would do here that I'm not asking for.
- Name the rawest material they would start from instead of what has already been digested for me.
- Name the specific methods and tools they would use.
- Say what, other than you or me, would show the result is right.
Then rewrite my prompt using only the parts of those answers that deepen the original deliverables. Methods and checks must evaluate those deliverables without adding artifacts or implementation tasks. For a guide-only request, keep the guide as the only deliverable and check it with existing tools rather than requiring a new check script, converter, or companion document.
Leave choices that are mine to make open instead of deciding them.