ask

A command that answers a strategic question using accumulated research findings. It searches shared research files, connects relevant evidence, and formats the answer with supporting findings and a confidence level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Answering questions about opportunities, risks, or choices by finding relevant evidence and presenting a reasoned response.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching through research documents whenever a new business question comes up.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/abilityai/trinity/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/trinity

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00007 $0.00388
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00194
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5ccc744eee62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

config/agent-templates/demo-analyst/.claude/commands/ask.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Answer Strategic Question

Use accumulated research findings to answer the user's question.

Context

The user will provide a question after this command, like:

  • /ask What opportunities exist in AI agents?
  • /ask What are the main risks we should watch?
  • /ask Should we pursue [specific opportunity]?

Steps

  1. Understand the Question

    • Parse the user's question
    • Identify key topics and themes to search for
  2. Search Research Findings

    • First, discover the researcher's shared folder: ls /home/developer/shared-in/
    • Look for a folder containing "researcher" in the name
    • Read all available findings from that folder's findings/ subdirectory
    • Look for relevant information matching the question topics
    • Note supporting evidence and sources
  3. Synthesize Answer

    • Compile relevant findings
    • Draw connections between data points
    • Form a coherent answer
  4. Provide Response

## Question
[Restate the question]

## Answer
[Clear, direct answer based on research]

## Supporting Evidence
1. **[Finding 1]** (from [date])
   - [Relevant detail]

2. **[Finding 2]** (from [date])
   - [Relevant detail]

## Confidence Level
[High/Medium/Low] - based on [amount of supporting data]

## Caveats
- [Any limitations or gaps in the research]

## Suggested Follow-up
- [Additional research that could help]
  1. Handle Missing Data If insufficient research exists:
    • State what information is missing
    • Suggest running /request-research [topic] to gather more data

Answer the question now.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 5ccc744eee62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 388 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.