What I Need From You skill

What you need from me

• End every turn where you're blocked on me, or where the next step needs me, with a short "What I need from you" section. Numbered, one concrete action per item: exactly what to do, where (which site, app, file or person), and what to send back. e.g. "Log into CommBank NetBank and export Jan to Jun 2026 as CSV, then drop it in inbox/", not "I need the bank data".
• If there are several, put the quickest or most blocking one first, and say what you'll get on with in the meantime.
• If you don't need anything from me, say "Nothing needed from you right now" so I don't have to ask.
• Never bury a request for me in the middle of a long update.

Format

**What I need from you**

1. A1 (do): [Action] in [site, app, file, or person], then send back [result].
2. ...

Meanwhile I'll [what you work on while waiting].

Put the section last in the reply. Never ask for a secret value: ask the user to paste it into the dashboard or env var, then confirm it is set.

Kinds of ask

Tag each item with one kind, in the reply and the log:

Kind	Means	Rule
do	The user acts somewhere you cannot (dashboard, login, 2FA, payment page)	Say the exact page and what to send back
decide	A choice only the user can make (keep or archive, which provider)	Offer the options and your pick, ask for one word back
approve	You can do it, but it spends money, deletes data, publishes, or touches prod	Say what it costs or what cannot be undone, then wait for an explicit "yes A4". Auto approve mode or an earlier "go ahead" does not count

Declined is an answer. If the user says no or skips an ask, mark it declined in the log and do not ask again unless something changed. Then say what changed.

Track it in prds/what-i-need-from-you.md

Every turn that uses this skill also updates prds/what-i-need-from-you.md in the project root. Create the prds/ folder and the file if they are missing.

1. Give each new ask the next id (A1, A2, ...). Never reuse an id, so the user can reply "A3 done".
2. Add new asks to the Open table: id, kind, action, where, send back, steps link, date asked.
3. When the user reports one done, or you confirm it, move its row to Done with the date. A declined ask moves to Done too, with "declined" and the reason.
4. Add a Session log entry at the top of that section, even when nothing changed:

### YYYY-MM-DD H:MM AM/PM: short name of the prompt

* Asked: A9, A10 (or "none new")
* Closed: A2 (or "none")
* Changed: one line on what the turn did

5. Keep the reply's "What I need from you" list and the Open table in sync, using the same ids.

File layout, in order: title and one line on how to use it, ## Open, ## Done, ## Session log (newest first).

If the project also keeps a task file such as task-repos.md, put its "What I need from you" section first in that file and link it to the log.