to-question

to-question structures your topic into a shape, renders it in the platform’s markup, iterates with you, and copies the result. It never posts, files, or sends anything.

When to use

You want a question or a “I am blocked on X” message ready to paste into Slack, Jira, GitHub, email, and similar.

To file an issue, use issue. For a public venue (Stack Overflow, Reddit, Discord, X, and others) it points you to research-workbench:community-post instead.

Invoke

/to-question [shape] [format] <topic or question>

Format	Platform	Default
`slack`	Slack mrkdwn	yes
`jira`	Jira wiki markup
`email`	Email (rich text paste)
`github`, `gitlab`, `linear`, `asana`, `markdown`	Markdown family
`bugzilla`	Plain text by default, Markdown if your instance renders it
`redmine`	Textile by default, Markdown on CommonMark instances
`trac`	Trac wiki markup

An unlisted private platform (Notion, Teams) falls back to the Markdown baseline, and it says so. For Bugzilla and Redmine it assumes the product default and tells you how to switch.

Shape	Use when	Sections
`question` (default)	You are choosing between alternatives	Context, Use Cases, Problem, Options, Questions
`unblock`	You need a named person to do a named thing	Blocked on, Already tried, What I need from you, By when

Saying you are blocked or stuck selects unblock, and it tells you.

What it produces

A draft checked by check-format.mjs for markup that will not survive the paste, copied to the clipboard with the first tool found (pbcopy, wl-copy, xclip, and others). With no clipboard it leaves a private temp file and gives the path.

Requirements

Node.js. The scripts check-format.mjs and question-path.mjs are committed with the skill. To check a draft yourself:

node ./scripts/check-format.mjs <target> draft.md [--json]

Example

/to-question unblock github Need a review on the retry fix before Friday's release

More detail: skill README.