Shall We? – A pre-engineering sanity check for AI-era feature bloat
Shall We is an open-source skill that helps developers resist the urge to build every feature just because it's technically possible. It asks structured questions before any code is written, delivering a verdict of YES/NO/LATER.
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A skill that helps you decide whether an idea is worth building — before you build it.
Implements the Agent Skills open standard. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, and any other compatible agent.
The problem
We're in an AI hype cycle where everyone wants to build everything, just because they can. Features get shipped because they're technically possible. Products get started because the demo looked good. Nobody stops to ask the uncomfortable question.
Shall we, though?
This skill is the uncomfortable question. It was inspired by two characters who've been fighting this battle from different angles:
The caveman (grugbrain.dev) — who's been saying no to complexity since before it was cool, and whose club has saved more codebases than any design pattern
The ponytail — the architect who's seen enough hype cycles to know that most ideas aren't bad, they're just badly timed, badly scoped, or solving the wrong problem
shall-we thinks like both of them, but operates one level higher: at the PM layer, where the decision to build (or not) is still cheap. It asks the questions that should happen before any code is written, any ticket is created, any design doc is started.
How it works
Restates your idea to confirm it understood correctly
Asks one question at a time — only what it needs to know
Stops early if a deal-breaker surfaces
Delivers a structured verdict:
Verdict: YES / NO / LATER
Why: ...
Strengths:
- ...
Concerns:
- ...
What would need to be true for a YES:
- ...
The four lenses: business value, market demand, complexity, and risk.
Installation
Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Tacsiazuma/shall-we /plugin install shall-we@shall-we
Then invoke with /shall-we.
Gemini CLI
gemini skills install https://github.com/Tacsiazuma/shall-we.git --consent
Cursor
Clone the skill into Cursor's skill directory:
git clone https://github.com/Tacsiazuma/shall-we.git /tmp/shall-we cp -r /tmp/shall-we/skills/shall-we ~/.cursor/skills/shall-we
Cursor picks it up automatically — no restart needed.
VS Code (GitHub Copilot)
Copy the skill into your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills git clone https://github.com/Tacsiazuma/shall-we.git /tmp/shall-we cp -r /tmp/shall-we/skills/shall-we .agents/skills/shall-we
OpenAI Codex
mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills git clone https://github.com/Tacsiazuma/shall-we.git /tmp/shall-we cp -r /tmp/shall-we/skills/shall-we ~/.agents/skills/shall-we
Any other agent
The skill lives at skills/shall-we/SKILL.md in this repo. Copy or symlink that directory wherever your agent looks for skills. See agentskills.io/clients for agent-specific paths.
Structure
. ├── skills/ │ └── shall-we/ │ └── SKILL.md # agentskills.io standard skill ├── .claude-plugin/ │ └── marketplace.json # Claude Code marketplace manifest └── plugins/ └── shall-we/ └── .claude-plugin/ └── plugin.json
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A skill to stop premature feature development before even coding.
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