ask

A command that answers questions using only notes stored in a project's wiki folder. It searches those notes, follows directly relevant links between notes, and cites the sources in its answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for asking questions about wiki notes, finding relevant passages, and receiving concise answers with links to the notes used.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unsupported answers by grounding responses in the project's own documentation instead of general information.

Command for Claude Code

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/slowww-ai/second-brain/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slowww-ai/second-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 228 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 $0.00012 $0.00228
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8451da4c4bcf, 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.

.claude/commands/ask.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Question: $ARGUMENTS

Answer the user's question using only information from wiki/notes/. Be concise and direct.

Steps:

  1. Run python scripts/search.py "<relevant keywords>" with 2-3 query variations to find notes that address the question. Remember to load the env first: set -a; source .env; set +a.
  2. Read the top 5-8 hits in full. Follow [[wikilinks]] one hop if they seem directly relevant to the question.
  3. Answer the question in a few paragraphs. Cite notes inline using [[note-id]] so the user can dig deeper.
  4. If the wiki has no relevant notes, say so clearly — do not hallucinate or pull from general knowledge. Suggest a /jina-capture or /ingest if the gap could be filled.
  5. Keep the answer conversational and under ~300 words. Do not write to any file — just reply in chat.
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 · 17 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 8451da4c4bcf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository slowww-ai/second-brain (10 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 228 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.