ask

ask is a command for coding agents from hainamchung/agent-assistant. It costs 11 tokens per session (391 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-routing command that sends factual questions to quick answers and research-heavy questions to a deeper answer workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer codebase lookups and factual questions, or route multi-source questions for analysis.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using a lengthy research process for simple questions while still allowing complex questions to be investigated.

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/hainamchung/agent-assistant/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hainamchung/agent-assistant

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 391 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 $0.00011 $0.00391
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash dce1802571da, 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 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.

commands/ask.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

/ask — Question Answering Router

ROUTER DIRECTIVE: Analyze question complexity and route to appropriate workflow.

$ARGUMENTS


🛑 PRE-FLIGHT (DO FIRST — BLOCKS EXECUTION)

LOAD now (in order; path ./rules/ or ~/.{TOOL}/skills/agent-assistant/rules/):

  1. CORE.md — Identity, Laws, Routing
  2. PHASES.md — Phase Execution
  3. AGENTS.md — Tiered Execution

⛔ Do not run any workflow phase until all are loaded. Follow all rules in those files. Then run this file's ROUTING LOGIC, LOAD the chosen variant workflow, and execute it.


ROUTING LOGIC

IF question is factual (single answer, codebase lookup):
  → Route to /ask:fast

IF question requires research (multiple sources, analysis):
  → Route to /ask:hard

IF unsure:
  → Default to /ask:fast (escalate if insufficient)

AVAILABLE ROUTES

Route When to Use
/ask:fast Quick factual answers, codebase lookups
/ask:hard Research-backed analysis, complex questions

PRESENT OPTIONS

## ❓ Question Mode Selection

**Question**: [parsed question]

**Choose workflow:**

1. ⚡ **Fast** → `/ask:fast` — Quick answer
2. ⚡⚡⚡ **Hard** → `/ask:hard` — Research-backed answer

⏳ Awaiting selection...
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 · 65 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A dce1802571da

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ask is a command published in the GitHub repository hainamchung/agent-assistant (54 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 391 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 2026-09-03.