# Unknowns Domain Bootstrap

> Teach the user enough domain vocabulary and mental models to prompt accurately. Use when the user says they do not understand a domain, lacks the right words, asks to learn their unknown unknowns, or needs practitioner vocabulary before asking Codex to do unfamiliar work.

- Skill: `infinite-labs-ai/unknowns-domain-bootstrap` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add infinite-labs-ai/unknowns-domain-bootstrap`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/infinite-labs-ai/unknowns-domain-bootstrap/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: Infinite-Labs-AI (https://skillmd.com/u/infinite-labs-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/infinite-labs-ai/unknowns-domain-bootstrap

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# Unknowns Domain Bootstrap

## Workflow

Turn a vague domain ask into promptable vocabulary.

Return:

- The naive framing and why it is too low-resolution.
- A beginner mental model.
- A vocabulary ladder: everyday phrase -> practitioner term -> why the distinction matters.
- Common traps, false friends, and decisions the user probably did not know existed.
- 3-6 prompts the user could not have written before the bootstrap.
- Stop condition: the user can ask the next question using the domain's real distinctions.

## Artifact Use

Use HTML when sliders, before/after comparisons, glossary sidebars, diagrams, or presets let the user feel the distinction. Otherwise use a compact teaching note with copyable prompt upgrades.

Do not over-teach. Teach only enough to make the next prompt precise.