ask

A command for asking one specialist agent a question, similar to sending a direct message to a colleague.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask a specific question directly, or select an expert such as an architect or security specialist before asking.
Why use it?
It gives you a focused answer from the relevant specialist without gathering several agents for a broader discussion.

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/restarter/lets-workflow/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,293 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 $0.00015 $0.01293
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00129

Measured yesterday against content hash a3c6fb3466c3, 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.

plugins/lets/commands/ask.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask an Expert

Quick consultation with a single expert agent. Like pinging a colleague on Slack.

IMPORTANT: If the spec below invokes any deferred tool (e.g. AskUserQuestion), you MUST load and call it as specified. Never skip the call, never substitute a default answer of your own — the tool invocation is part of the contract. This is critical.

Usage

/lets:ask                          # Interactive - asks who and what
/lets:ask security "is this safe?" # Direct to expert with question
/lets:ask architect                # Opens dialog, asks question after

Difference from /lets:opinion

/lets:ask /lets:opinion
Purpose Ask one colleague Team meeting
Experts Always 1 Dynamic, in parallel
Input Question Decision + options
Output Direct answer Comparison table + recommendation
Analogy Slack ping 30 min meeting

Step 1: Determine Expert

If specified in arguments - use it. Otherwise use AskUserQuestion to pick.

Available experts (map to lets:* agents):

# Shorthand Agent (subagent_type) Expertise
1 architect lets:architect System design, patterns, SOLID
2 security lets:security Vulnerabilities, auth, crypto
3 backend lets:backend API, logic, performance
4 frontend lets:frontend UI, React/Vue, a11y
5 database lets:database Schema, queries, migrations
6 devops lets:devops Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure
7 qa lets:qa Testing, coverage, strategy
8 docs lets:docs Documentation, API docs
9 compliance lets:compliance Project rules, standards
10 git-historian lets:git-historian History, past decisions, blame
11 pragmatist lets:pragmatist ROI, effort vs value, scope
12 actor lets:actor External personality - any expertise via loaded persona

Shorthand mapping: User can type short names like "security" or "sec" - map to the correct agent subagent_type.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. yesterday First seen · 154 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A a3c6fb3466c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,293 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 2026-08-30.