ask

ask is a command for Claude Code from SatoruoGojoo/octopus. It costs 19 tokens per session (158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only command for asking a scout agent questions about a codebase, its Git history, or project progress. The agent checks the repository and returns an answer with references to files, lines, or commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find where behaviour is implemented, understand past changes, investigate project progress, and answer focused questions about code or Git history.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with answers grounded in the project’s code and history. The source references let developers verify why the answer is correct.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the octopus plugin — 9 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It helps find where behaviour is implemented, understand past changes, investigate project progress, and answer focused questions about code or Git history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/satoruogojoo/octopus/ask
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SatoruoGojoo/octopus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octopus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ask

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/satoruogojoo/octopus/ask.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/satoruogojoo/octopus/ask)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/satoruogojoo/octopus/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/satoruogojoo/octopus/ask.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 158 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 $0.00019 $0.00158
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00079
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured 8d ago against content hash 42bbfb51a71b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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/ask.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

使用 Agent 工具啟動 scout agent(Octopus 考古官)回答以下問題。

把問題原文與當前工作目錄完整轉給它;它會以唯讀方式查證 codebase 與 git 紀錄後回答,並附來源標註(file:line / commit hash)。它回覆後,將其答案完整轉述給使用者,不要刪減來源標註。

若使用者的問題為空,請他補上要問什麼。

問題:$ARGUMENTS

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. 8d ago First seen · 13 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 42bbfb51a71b

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ask is a command published in the GitHub repository SatoruoGojoo/octopus (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 158 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 2026-08-31.