local_ask

local_ask is a command for Claude Code from jgt87/local-llm-mcp. It costs 14 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that sends a question or instruction, along with any needed file or command output, to a language model running locally on your machine. It displays the model's answer for you to review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask questions about supplied text, files, or command output and receive a short generated answer.
Why use it?
It gives you a way to ask a local model for help without sending secrets or private data to an online provider. The answer is treated as a draft rather than an automatically trusted result.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to ask questions about supplied text, files, or command output and receive a short generated answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jgt87/local-llm-mcp/local_ask
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jgt87/local-llm-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 292 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00014 $0.00292
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00117
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured 5d ago against content hash 32b4e418e831, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local_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 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/local_ask.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Request: $ARGUMENTS

If the request is empty, ask the user what to send.

Answer the request with local_ask. If it refers to a file or command output, read it yourself and include the relevant part in the prompt. Pick maxTokens to fit the expected answer length (160 is about 10 seconds). Present the answer with the model name and time taken.

Ground rules:

  • Use the local-llm tools for the generation step; do the reading, trimming and checking yourself. The local model has no file access, no repo context and no memory between calls, so every call must carry all the text it needs.
  • Keep maxTokens tight: locally it runs at roughly 16 tokens per second.
  • Stay on the default provider unless the user asked for OpenRouter. Never send secrets, keys or private data to provider="openrouter".
  • If a call fails because Ollama is unreachable, say so and stop; do not silently do the work yourself instead.
  • Treat the reply as a draft. Check it against the source before presenting it, fix what is wrong, and say briefly what you changed.
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 · 21 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 32b4e418e831

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local_ask is a command published in the GitHub repository jgt87/local-llm-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-27.