wait-what

Use it when:: The agent's last message lost you.
It does:: Makes the agent explain it again, with some context first, in simplified English and your project's own terms.
Runs:: Only when you call it.
Works best with:: A GLOSSARY.md in the repo that defines your project's terms.

TL;DR

A one-line prompt to fire when an answer doesn't land. It tells the agent you're lost and asks it to explain that message again: a little context first, then the explanation in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, a controlled English with short sentences and a limited vocabulary, made for aircraft manuals. It also asks the agent to use the terms defined in your repo's glossary, so the wording matches the rest of the project. It only re-explains the last message.

Summarizes the skill at 5beb35b.

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill wait-what

skills.sh page Source on GitHub All skills from mattpocock/skills

Total Downloads: 510,600 on skills.sh, Nov 9, 2026
Repo stars: 318,714 mattpocock/skills
First seen: Aug 5, 2026 on skills.sh

Weekly Downloads

27.5K

-22% over the 8 weeks to Nov 9

Weekly values

Week to	Installs
Sep 21	35,105
Sep 28	31,392
Oct 5	33,820
Oct 12	44,118
Oct 19	36,036
Oct 26	31,754
Nov 2	28,926
Nov 9	27,457

Category	category:output-style category:software-engineering Change how the agent replies: shorter, clearer, fewer tokens. Everything for building software: planning, coding, debugging, design, frameworks, cloud, agents and skills.
Type	type:command A one-shot action you invoke by name, such as turning the conversation into a PRD.
Effect	effect:none Adds no side effects of its own. It shapes how the agent thinks, writes or reviews. Guidelines and routers are always effect:none, even when the task they support edits code.
Needs	needs:none Instructions only. Works in any agent that supports skills.
Publisher	by:community Everyone else. Unverified vendor claims default to community.
Topics	output-style

SKILL.md

From mattpocock/skills at 5beb35b. Checked daily, last changed Oct 20, 2026.

Frontmatter

name: wait-what
description: "Stop. That last message did not land: re-pitch it."
disable-model-invocation: true

Wait, I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from GLOSSARY.md (follow GLOSSARY-MAP.md to the right one if the repo has more than one).