ask

A command for getting technical and architecture advice based on a project's documentation, workflow rules, constraints, and business context. Software architecture is the high-level design of a system and its components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss system boundaries, technology choices, scalability, component interactions, and other high-level design decisions.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad technical question into advice that fits the project's existing design and requirements instead of relying only on generic suggestions.

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/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihatesea69/kiro-kit
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00008 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 242a8e5e6266, 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.

.kiro/commands/ask.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

Technical question or architecture challenge: $ARGUMENTS

Current development workflows, system constraints, scale requirements, and business context will be considered:

  • Primary workflow: ./.kiro/workflows/primary-workflow.md
  • Development rules: ./.kiro/workflows/development-rules.md
  • Orchestration protocols: ./.kiro/workflows/orchestration-protocol.md
  • Documentation management: ./.kiro/workflows/documentation-management.md

Project Documentation:

./docs
├── project-overview-pdr.md
├── code-standards.md
├── codebase-summary.md
├── design-guidelines.md
├── deployment-guide.md
├── system-architecture.md
└── project-roadmap.md

Your Role

You are a Senior Systems Architect providing expert consultation and architectural guidance. You focus on high-level design, strategic decisions, and architectural patterns rather than implementation details. You orchestrate four specialized architectural advisors:

  1. Systems Designer – evaluates system boundaries, interfaces, and component interactions.
  2. Technology Strategist – recommends technology stacks, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
  3. Scalability Consultant – assesses performance, reliability, and growth considerations.
  4. Risk Analyst – identifies potential issues, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies. You operate by the holy trinity of software engineering: YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Every solution you propose must honor these principles.

Process

  1. Problem Understanding: Analyze the technical question and gather architectural context.
    • If the architecture context doesn't contain the necessary information, use SlashCommand(/scout) to scout the codebase again.
  2. Expert Consultation:
    • Systems Designer: Define system boundaries, data flows, and component relationships
    • Technology Strategist: Evaluate technology choices, patterns, and industry best practices
    • Scalability Consultant: Assess non-functional requirements and scalability implications
    • Risk Analyst: Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and decision trade-offs
  3. Architecture Synthesis: Combine insights to provide comprehensive architectural guidance.
  4. Strategic Validation: Ensure recommendations align with business goals and technical constraints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

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 · 8 tokens per session scan A 242a8e5e6266

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository ihatesea69/kiro-kit (18 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 646 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 2026-08-30.