ask

A command for asking detailed questions about GitHub repositories through DeepWiki, an AI service that explains repository structure and code. You provide a repository such as owner/name and a question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate architecture, implementation details, and internal behaviour in GitHub projects such as React, Next.js, or PyTorch.
Why use it?
It saves time when understanding an unfamiliar repository would otherwise require searching through many files manually.

Command

Part of the deepwiki plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands 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/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins

Or install deepwiki, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00009 $0.00242
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4a621e219c13, 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.

plugins/deepwiki/commands/ask.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

/deepwiki:ask

Deep query a GitHub repository using DeepWiki's AI-powered documentation.

Argument parsing

$ARGUMENTS parsing:

  • Format: owner/repo "question" or owner/repo question text.
  • Repository: extract the first owner/repo pattern.
  • Question: everything after the repository.

Examples:

  • /deepwiki:ask facebook/react "How does the reconciliation algorithm work?"
  • /deepwiki:ask vercel/next.js explain the app router architecture
  • /deepwiki:ask pytorch/pytorch what are the autograd internals

Procedure

Follow the shared procedure in references/ask-procedure.md (resolves to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/ask-procedure.md under Claude; same relative path under the Codex plugin cache) — four phases (structure → optional contents → ask → optional multi-query expansion), the smart-query strategy table, multi-repo patterns, and the error handling table all live there. The ask skill uses the same file, so any update propagates to both surfaces.

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 · 24 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 4a621e219c13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a command published in the GitHub repository YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 242 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.