Agent skill
asking-effective-questions
When the user wants to improve their questioning technique in sales conversations, uncover pain points, understand budget, timeline, or decision-making process.
Filed under Calls, demos and discovery.
From louisblythe/Sales-Skills · 122 skills · 136 · pushed 2026-01-24
What it does when it runs
When the user wants to improve their questioning technique in sales conversations, uncover pain points, understand budget, timeline, or decision-making process. Also use when the user mentions "discovery questions," "qualifying questions," "SPIN selling," "uncovering needs," or "better questions.
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allowed-toolsin the frontmatter. It only issues instructions, so there is nothing to bound. - Actions present in the files
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Install it
View source on GitHub ↗git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/louisblythe/Sales-Skills.git /tmp/Sales-Skills git -C /tmp/Sales-Skills sparse-checkout set "skills/asking-effective-questions" mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/asking-effective-questions cp -R "/tmp/Sales-Skills/skills/asking-effective-questions/." ~/.claude/skills/asking-effective-questions/
Picked up without a restart. A project skill of the same name is shadowed by your personal one. For one repository only, swap ~/.claude/skills for .claude/skills. Claude Code docs ↗
Or take the whole library
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/plugin marketplace add louisblythe/Sales-Skills /plugin
The folder is the same in every client that implements the format — 46 of them — so if yours is not above, only the destination changes.
The skill
Source on GitHub ↗The source carries no licence at all, so no permission to redistribute it exists. Everything else on this page is our own reading of the file and is published here; the text of the skill is not, and stays where its author put it.
Need help setting it up?
This page tells you what asking-effective-questions does and what it needs. Cheetah builds the agent setup it runs inside: data, CRM, sequencing and the guardrails.
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