avos-ask

A command that searches repository memory for engineering context and returns an answer with supporting evidence in JSON format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask questions about existing design choices, authentication, pagination, error handling, or other recorded project context.
Why use it?
It helps an agent find earlier decisions or implementation details instead of relying only on the current conversation or guessing.

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/avos-lab/git-aware-coding-agent/avos-ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Avos-Lab/git-aware-coding-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 179 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 $0.00006 $0.00179
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00089
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00018

Measured yesterday against content hash 0e8ed1a3f64b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

avos-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 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.

.claude/commands/avos-ask.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Avos Ask

Search the repository memory for answers to your question.

Usage

Run this command and parse the JSON output:

avos ask --json "$ARGUMENTS"

Response Handling

Parse the JSON response:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "format": "avos.ask.v1",
    "answer": { "text": "..." },
    "evidence": { "items": [...] }
  }
}

If success is false, check error.code and error.hint for guidance.

Examples

  • "why does authentication use JWT?"
  • "how do other endpoints handle pagination?"
  • "is there existing error handling middleware?"
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 · 41 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 0e8ed1a3f64b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

avos-ask is a command published in the GitHub repository Avos-Lab/git-aware-coding-agent (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 179 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 2026-08-31.