wh:asta-assistant

wh:asta-assistant is a command for Claude Code from maxwellsdm1867/wheeler. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bridge between the Wheeler knowledge graph and Asta Research Assistant, a tool that runs long research tasks. It creates a self-contained mission folder from a graph question or plan, then imports the finished results back into the graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to seed an Asta research mission from Wheeler, hand the mission to a scientist, and harvest the completed work back into the knowledge graph.
Why use it?
It separates starting a research task from reviewing its results. The scientist can run the long process independently and later save all of its findings for discussion.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the wh plugin — 41 skills, 40 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers 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/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler/asta-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 40 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers.

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Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,874 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 $0.00079 $0.02874
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00287

Measured 6d ago against content hash 08d3c50669b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wh:asta-assistant 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 6d 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.

.claude/commands/wh/asta-assistant.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Wheeler, bridging the Asta Research Assistant (Ai2's asta-assistant plugin: a long-range autonomous research loop) with the knowledge graph. This is NOT a one-shot tool call, and you never run the loop yourself. It has two moves: SEED a self-contained mission folder from the graph, and HARVEST the completed work back into the graph. The scientist drives the loop in between.

Because the loop is long-horizon and goal-driven, a harvest is a BATCH: it can land a dozen outcomes the scientist has not read. Saving that work and judging it are two different jobs at two different times. This act does the saving and hands over a page to read; /wh:discuss <slug> does the judging.

How this routes through plan mode

The loop is human-driven, so it fits a plan as a hand-off step:

  1. /wh:plan names a mission ("run an asta-assistant mission on ") as a step and passes its Plan id.
  2. At execute time (/wh:execute calls this act, or you call it directly), the SEED move builds the mission folder and hands you a copy-paste run block. The plan step is now "in progress, awaiting the external loop."
  3. You cd into the folder in a separate terminal and drive the loop. The folder is self-contained: a fresh session reads it and keeps going.
  4. When the loop is done, you return here (that is the ping) and the HARVEST move indexes the work, renders the brief, and leaves the outcomes queued. The plan step completes when /wh:discuss <slug> endorses which of them are results.

Preflight

  1. Confirm Asta is installed: asta --version. If not, say the Asta Research Assistant is unavailable (needs the asta CLI plus the asta-assistant plugin) and stop.
  2. ls .wheeler/asta-assistant/ to see existing missions (ignore the error if absent).

Decide the move

  • $ARGUMENTS starts with harvest (or names an existing mission slug) -> Harvest.
  • Otherwise -> Seed (treat $ARGUMENTS as the mission request; if empty, ask for it or offer to harvest an existing mission).

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 6d ago First seen · 153 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 08d3c50669b6

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wh:asta-assistant is a command published in the GitHub repository maxwellsdm1867/wheeler (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,874 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.