headworklisted
Install: claude install-skill dbhq-uk/headwork-skill
# headwork
Take the one decision blocking the work in hand and put it to the user as one
question they answer by **choosing**, not by composing. Name a recommendation
and say what would overturn it, so disagreeing means checking a condition, not
overruling a machine.
## When not to use
- **Designing a new thing** - `superpowers:brainstorming`.
- **Stress-testing a whole plan** - grill-me, from
[`mattpocock/skills`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills).
- **An independent model's view** - `groupwork`.
- **Which issue comes next** - `deskwork`.
- **A stalled Trello board** - `life-manager`.
- **A failing problem rather than a choice** -
`superpowers:systematic-debugging` or `paseo-committee`.
## Never ask what you can find out
Before every question, look: the session first, then whatever the decision
touches - `git log`, the file, open issues, the register, the tests. Say in one
line what you checked and what it settled; that line is the proof you looked. A
question a file could have answered is a bug.
## A round, exactly
1. **Look.**
2. **Say what you checked**, in one line.
3. **Explain** in two to four short numbered points: just enough that the
options mean something.
4. **Ask one question**, in the form for your tools.
5. **Stop and wait.** No second question in the same message, no closing "and
also", no "let me know if you'd like me to...".
6. **Carry out the chosen option as normal work, before any next round.** Start
a new round only if another dec