recommend

A command that recommends service providers for a stated goal and saves the recommendation as a reusable recipe.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a goal to get a shortlist of providers, save the result, and reuse the recipe to provision those providers and connect their secrets.
Why use it?
It avoids having to research and assemble the same provider choices again when setting up a project.

Command

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/ashlrai/ashlr-stack/recommend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashlrai/ashlr-stack
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 276 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 $0.00023 $0.00276
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 9e1b2d26e867, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recommend 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/plugin/commands/recommend.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Call stack_recommend via the ashlr-stack MCP server with the user's query. Pass save: true so the recipe is persisted, and k: 6 so the top 6 hits come back.

Invocation:

stack_recommend { query: "<user's input>", save: true, k: 6 }

Then render the hits as a short bulleted list, one line per provider:

• <displayName>  <category>  — <rationale-or-blurb>

After the list, show the saved recipe id on its own line (e.g. Recipe: rec_xxx).

Suggest the next step verbatim:

Run /stack:apply <recipe-id> to provision these providers and wire their secrets.

If the ashlr-stack MCP server is not configured (tool not available), tell the user to install the plugin with /plugin install ashlr-stack and ensure the stack CLI is on PATH (npm i -g @ashlr/stack).

If the user gave no query, ask them one clarifying question about the goal (e.g. "what are you building?") before calling the tool.

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. yesterday First seen · 28 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 9e1b2d26e867

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recommend is a command published in the GitHub repository ashlrai/ashlr-stack (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 276 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.