ask

A command for asking complex questions about an Obsidian vault, a folder of linked notes, using QMD search and the information found in those notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic across your notes and produce a cited summary or direct answer.
Why use it?
It gathers relevant notes before answering, so you do not have to search through the vault yourself. It also requires file links for major claims, making the answer traceable.

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/superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

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 225 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 $0.00019 $0.00225
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 3d ago against content hash e43c03bddeca, 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 3d 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/qmd/ask.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

QMD Ask

Parameters

  • query (required): The question or topic to ask about.

Prerequisites

  • QMD CLI tool must be installed. (If QMD is completely unavailable, gracefully fallback to obsidian search "[query]" and warn the user, or use ripgrep if Obsidian is closed).

Steps

  1. Run qmd query "[query]" --json -n 10 to perform a semantic + BM25 + LLM reranked search across the vault.
  2. Read the returned snippets or retrieve full documents if the snippets indicate high relevance but lack full context.
  3. Synthesize a comprehensive answer based ONLY on the retrieved context.
  4. Mandatory: Cite your sources using exact file links (e.g., [[Filename]] or markdown links to the file path) for every major claim in the synthesis.

Validation / Success Criteria

  • The user receives a synthesized answer with citations to vault files.
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. 3d ago First seen · 21 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e43c03bddeca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository superuser-pal/awesome-second-brain (14 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 225 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.

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