ask

A question-answering command that searches notes from earlier work and combines them with the current conversation. It can also use general knowledge when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask about previous decisions, tasks, or discussions while working in a new conversation.
Why use it?
It avoids making you repeat information from past sessions and makes clear whether an answer comes from memory, the current discussion, or an inference.

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/evermind-ai/everos/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EverMind-AI/EverOS
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 387 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 $0.00017 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 488f7e1a60d6, 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 2d 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.

use-cases/claude-code-plugin/commands/ask.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

EverMem Ask

Answer a question using both memory search results and current conversation context.

Question

{{question}}

Instructions

  1. Search memories using evermem_search MCP tool with relevant keywords. Start with 10 results.

  2. Evaluate results:

    • If memories provide useful context, note what you learned
    • If more detail needed, search again with different keywords (up to 3 searches)
    • If no relevant memories found, that's OK - proceed with what you know
  3. Combine sources to answer:

    • Memory search results (past sessions)
    • Current conversation context (this session)
    • Your general knowledge (when applicable)
  4. Be honest about sources:

    • "Based on our discussion on [date]..." - when citing memory
    • "From our current session..." - when citing current context
    • "I don't have any recorded information about this" - when memories don't help
    • "Based on general best practices..." - when using general knowledge
  5. Admit uncertainty:

    • If memories are incomplete or unclear, say so
    • If you're inferring rather than recalling, make that clear
    • It's better to say "I don't know" than to guess

Response Format

Start with a direct answer, then provide supporting context:

[Direct answer to the question]

**From memories:**
- [Relevant points from past sessions, with dates]

**Current context:**
- [Relevant points from this session, if any]

**Note:** [Any caveats or gaps in knowledge]

Now answer the user's question.

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. 2d ago First seen · 58 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 488f7e1a60d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository EverMind-AI/EverOS (12,624 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 387 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 2026-08-30.