vkm-intakelisted
Install: claude install-skill Vahlame/create-vkm-kit
# vkm-intake — read the task right, then do only that
Installed by create-vkm-kit (vkm-kit). One job: **kill the three cheapest ways a session wastes
tokens and quality — misreading the prompt, misreading the attachments, and over-assembling
context** — by spending ~10 lines before the first tool call instead of thousands after it.
The failure this prevents (observed in field use of this kit): on simple tasks the model
goes off on tangents, misinterprets the prompt or the images, or assembles the wrong
context — and the result is slow AND mediocre. Interpretation errors compound; everything downstream of a wrong
restatement is waste.
## The move — before the first tool call
**1. Restate the task in ≤3 lines** (this is the contract for the rest of the session):
```text
Objective: <what changes in the world when this is done — not the steps>
Deliverable: <the artifact the user receives: file, diff, answer, decision>
Not doing: <the adjacent things this task does NOT include>
```
Write it to the user verbatim. If the task is genuinely trivial (one obvious edit), the
restatement IS one line and you skip the rest of this skill.
**2. Ambiguity gate — one closed question, or a stated default.** If two readings of the
prompt produce _different deliverables_, ask ONE closed question (options, not an essay) and
stop until answered. If the readings differ only in detail, pick the most reasonable default,
**name it in one line** ("Assuming X; say so if not"), and proceed. N