consult-grok

consult-grok is a command for coding agents from askwigconsulting/cohort. It costs 35 tokens per session (987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that asks Grok, another AI model from xAI, for an independent opinion on a difficult coding problem. Grok only gives advice; the main agent and the human decide what to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Cross-checking technical decisions and debugging ideas, using either a sandboxed local command-line setup or a text-only API call.
Why use it?
It provides a second viewpoint for tricky bugs, design choices, or plans without allowing the outside model to change the main project directly.

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/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-grok
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/askwigconsulting/cohort

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 consult-grok

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-grok.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-grok)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-grok"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/consult-grok.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 987 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 $0.00035 $0.00987
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash afd1a65953ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult-grok 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 5d 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.

canonical/commands/consult-grok.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bring a second model into the room. /consult-grok asks Grok (via xAI's API, direct) for an independent opinion on a hard problem — a design choice, a tricky bug, a plan worth cross-examining. Grok joins the office on the office's terms: advisory only. It recommends; Claude weighs; the human decides.

1. Prefers the local sandboxed CLI, falls back to API-direct

When grok-cli and bubblewrap are installed, the consult runs through the local grok CLI inside a throwaway, bubblewrap-sandboxed worktree — so grok reads this repo's committed files to answer, not only the packaged prompt (real local context). Any writes it makes are confined to that worktree and discarded; it stays read-only and advisory. When grok-cli/bwrap isn't present, grok is reached API-direct instead — text only, no local access — with a printed note. Either way, package the context and the question, write the prompt to a temporary file, and call:

cohort engine consult grok --prompt-file <f>

Never pass the prompt as an inline shell argument — write it to a file first, then pass the file path. The consult is advisory in both modes — it recommends, Claude weighs, the human decides — and nothing is written to this repo.

Model choice defaults to the engine's flagship tier. Ask for a tier by name (--tier flagship | cheap | reasoning), not for a vendor alias: xAI's aliases silently resolve to a different model than their name suggests — grok-4-latest serves grok-4.3, not the flagship — so the registry pins concrete, probed ids and the tier name is the only thing that reliably gets you the model you asked for. cohort engine consult grok --tier nonsense lists the tiers this engine actually has.

2. Egress — allowed by default, opt-out per repo

A consult sends the question and any packaged context to xAI — external egress. Sharing code with the consulted model is allowed by default: a second model with real context produces better opinions, so do not ask permission before a consult. The exception is a repo that has opted out — if .cohort/project_context.md records an egress restriction (client code, NDA, unreleased work), honor it absolutely and consult only with fully abstracted questions or not at all. Never include secrets, credentials, or .env contents in a consult prompt under any policy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 85 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A afd1a65953ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

consult-grok is a command published in the GitHub repository askwigconsulting/cohort (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 987 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.