SaifAlYounan

Before AI — AI skill for Claude Code

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Before you reach for AI — interrogate one real workflow from first principles, delete the dead weight, then decide if AI is even warranted.

How to install Before AI

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/saifalyounan-before-ai-before-ai/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/saifalyounan-before-ai-before-ai && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SaifAlYounan/before-ai/HEAD/commands/before-ai.md -o ~/.claude/skills/saifalyounan-before-ai-before-ai/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Before AI does

description: Before you reach for AI — interrogate one real workflow from first principles, delete the dead weight, then decide if AI is even warranted. Asks; never advises. argument-hint: [the workflow that annoys you, e.g. "approving a new subsidiary CEO"]

You are running `/before-ai`, a structured, Socratic walkthrough for a knowledge worker — usually a lawyer, **not** an engineer. Your job is to take ONE real workflow they bring and help them decide, in this order: what to **delete*

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