A command that asks several AI models for separate views on a coding question. It can add context from the current file, recent errors, and project structure.

Getting multiple opinions while debugging, designing a change, or choosing among coding approaches.

It gives you different suggestions for the same problem, which can help when one answer is incomplete or uncertain.

ask — Command for Claude Code by backspacevenkat

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install polydev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin/ask.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 12 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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00012	$0.00179
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00072
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00036
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00018

Measured today against content hash fe4f74be2533, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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/polydev-hosted/commands/ask.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

/polydev-hosted:ask [question]

Ask the other AI models set up in the user's Polydev account the same question, then compare the answers.

Take the question from the argument; if there is none, use the problem being discussed.
Add only the context the models need (relevant code, the error, constraints). Leave out secrets, keys and unrelated files: Polydev passes the prompt to other model providers.
Call the get_perspectives tool of the polydev MCP server with that prompt. The first call asks the user to sign in to Polydev in the browser.
Summarise where the models agree, where they differ, and what you recommend.

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.

today Changed · -89 lines · +3 tokens per session fe4f74be2533
2mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 97e07c703209

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository backspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 179 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Building agents

ask next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
askbackspacevenkat/polydev-claude-code-plugin	Command	1	today	MIT	A	12	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code
speckit.bug.fixgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	12	Claude Code