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# answer-question > **Runs under AGENTS.md.** These contracts bind without being restated here: the Privacy Invariant (`current_base` never outbound), the Honesty Firewall (never fabricate an answer — the unanswerable case is the literal `NEEDS YOU` marker, not a guess), the Placeholder/Bracket Ban, the Domain-Neutral Rule, Activity Pulse logging, and Tracker verify+snapshot (only when a tracked application's answers artifact gets stamped). Inline reminders at point-of-use are intentional; standalone restatements point back to the relevant AGENTS.md section. ## Boundary — when this runs Use this skill for one-off pasted application-form or screening question(s), optionally with company/role context — typically via the `/answer` page through the embedded runtime, or conversationally mid-session. During a full tailor/apply run, `tailor-application` STEP 6 ("Form questions — fetch the real list, answer every one") owns the answers artifact end to end; this skill exists for "an extra question came up" outside that flow — a recruiter forwards a supplemental question, a portal surfaces one after submission, or the user is simply curious how to answer something. **No STEP-0 gate check.** Every apply-surface skill (`apply-job`, `tailor-application`) opens on a gate/limits check because it can submit, upload, or advance an application. This skill never does any of that — it only drafts text. The user pursuing the question at all already implies the pursue decision was made elsewhe