Ask User Questions

SkillDev tools

Ask clarifying questions to users via interactive TUI. Use when you need user input on preferences, implementation choices, or ambiguous instructions.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Ask User Questions skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp in skills/ask-user-questions/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this tool when you need to ask the user questions during execution. This allows you to:

Gather user preferences or requirements Clarify ambiguous instructions Get decisions on implementation choices as you work Offer choices to the user about what direction to take. Usage notes:

Users will always be able to select "Other" to provide custom text input Use multiSelect: true to allow multiple answers to be selected for a question Recommend an option unless absolutely necessary, make it the first option in the list and add "(Recommended)" at the end of the label For multiSelect questions, you MAY mark multiple options as "(Recommended)" if several choices are advisable Do NOT use this tool to ask "Is my plan ready?" or "Should I proceed?"

Usage

# Ask questions via CLI
npx auq ask '{"questions": [...]}'

# Or pipe JSON input
echo '{"questions": [...]}' | npx auq ask

Parameters

{
  "questions": [
    {
      "prompt": "Which authentication method would you like to use?",
      "title": "Auth",
      "options": [
        {"label": "JWT (Recommended)", "description": "Stateless, scalable"},
        {"label": "Session cookies", "description": "Traditional, server-side"}
      ],
      "multiSelect": false
    }
  ]
}
FieldTypeRequiredDescription
questionsarrayYes1-5 question objects
questions[].promptstringYesFull question text
questions[].titlestringYesShort label (max 12 chars)
questions[].optionsarrayYes2-5 options with label and optional description
questions[].multiSelectbooleanYesAllow multiple selections

Signals

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Jun 2026
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Source
github.com/paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp