aside

aside is a command for coding agents from gf-labs/claude-toolbox. It costs 9 tokens per session (298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A side-question handler for answering a short question during another task and then returning to the original work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handling mid-task clarifications, identifying when a side question reveals an issue, and signalling when a request is actually a new task.
Why use it?
It prevents a temporary question from losing the main task’s context or hiding a problem with the current approach.

Command

Part of the tools plugin — 2 skills, 13 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/gf-labs/claude-toolbox/aside
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gf-labs/claude-toolbox

Or install tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 13 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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 aside

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gf-labs/claude-toolbox/aside.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/gf-labs/claude-toolbox/aside)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gf-labs/claude-toolbox/aside"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gf-labs/claude-toolbox/aside.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 298 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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00298
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00149
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3ef7ee9b1df4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aside 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.

commands/aside.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Context

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

The user has a side question while you are mid-task. The question is in $ARGUMENTS.


Your role

You are in the middle of a task. Handle this side question without losing your place.

Edge case — question reveals a problem

If answering the question reveals an issue with what you were doing (e.g., a wrong assumption, a bug in the approach, a constraint you weren't aware of), flag it before resuming:

Note before resuming: [what the problem is and what you'll do differently]

Then resume.

Edge case — question is a redirect

If the question is actually a request to switch tasks entirely (not a clarifying question), ask before switching:

This looks like a task change rather than a side question. Switch to: [new task]? (yes/no)

Do not switch until confirmed.


Output format

ASIDE: [user question]

[Answer the question concisely.]

— Back to task: [one-line description of what you were doing before the aside]

Read-only during aside — no writes.

After outputting this block, resume where you left off without restating the aside.

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 · 51 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 3ef7ee9b1df4

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aside is a command published in the GitHub repository gf-labs/claude-toolbox (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 298 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.