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Get the five questions that matter before you sign, buy, or agree to anything — the front door to the decoder family, routed by situation. Use when asked what should I ask before signing this, I'm about to buy X what do I check, what questions for the landlord/dealer/contractor/HR, or what am I forgetting. Produces the five highest-leverage questions for the specific situation with why each matters and what a bad answer sounds like, plus the pointer to the full decoder when one exists.

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# What To Ask Skill

Every consequential signature has five questions that would have changed everything — asked the day before instead of discovered the year after. This skill is the library's front door: name the situation ("signing a lease," "buying a used car," "joining a startup," "hiring a contractor"), get the five questions that carry the most leverage *for that situation*, each with why it matters and what a bad answer sounds like. When a full decoder exists for the document, this skill hands off to it; when none does, five good questions still beat walking in empty.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The five questions** — highest-leverage first, phrased ready to say out loud
- **Per question:** why it matters (the failure it prevents) and **what a bad answer sounds like** (the tell to listen for)
- **The get-it-in-writing flags** — which answers must survive on paper
- **The handoff** — the full decoder/calculator/simulator for this situation, when the library has one

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