ask

ask is a command for coding agents from arielaizn/grok-plugin-cc. It costs 10 tokens per session (360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that sends a question or task to Grok and returns Grok’s separate answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for focused questions, difficult analysis, or background codebase reviews when you want a second opinion.
Why use it?
It gives you another model’s opinion while keeping the answer distinct from your own reasoning. Grok is read-only unless you explicitly allow writing.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the grok plugin — 3 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent shipped together

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/arielaizn/grok-plugin-cc/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arielaizn/grok-plugin-cc

Or install grok, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ask

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 360 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 $0.00010 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash f6c1e9b43058, 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 4d 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.

plugins/grok/commands/ask.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Delegate a task to Grok running headlessly in this workspace, and return what it says.

Raw slash-command arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Core constraint:

  • Grok is read-only unless the user passes --write. Do not add --write on their behalf.
  • Return Grok's answer as its own output. Do not merge it into your own reasoning as if you had worked it out, and do not silently act on its conclusions — the user asked for a second opinion, not a hand-off.

Argument handling:

  • Pass the prompt through unchanged.
  • --effort high is worth suggesting for genuinely hard analysis; it costs more and takes longer.

Execution — foreground for a focused question:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/grok-companion.mjs" ask $ARGUMENTS

Background for anything that will sweep a codebase:

Bash({
  command: `node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/grok-companion.mjs" ask $ARGUMENTS`,
  description: "Grok delegation",
  run_in_background: true
})

Output rules:

  • Present Grok's answer, attributed to Grok.
  • If you disagree with it, say so plainly and give your reason. Do not present a claim you believe is wrong without flagging it, and do not defer to it just because it came from another model.
  • If the run failed, relay the error rather than guessing at what Grok would have said.
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. 4d ago First seen · 43 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f6c1e9b43058

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ask is a command published in the GitHub repository arielaizn/grok-plugin-cc (6 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 360 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.