consult

A procedure for asking another AI command-line tool for advice or a second opinion. It can pass a question and, when selected, limited context such as a file or code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for consulting Gemini, Claude, Codex, OpenCode, or Copilot about a question, code change, file, or existing consultation session.
Why use it?
It helps compare viewpoints or validate a decision when one AI response is uncertain or another model may spot a problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agent-sh/agentsys/consult
Any agent
npx skills add agent-sh/agentsys --skill consult
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-sh/agentsys

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00060 $0.05715
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02857
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00571

Measured 3d ago against content hash 89b7349a4edd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

consult scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

User-provided question text MUST NOT be interpolated into shell command strings. Shell escaping is insufficient -- `$()`, backticks, and other expansion sequences can execute arbitrary commands even inside double quotes.
.kiro/skills/consult/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

consult

Cross-tool AI consultation: query another AI CLI tool and return the response.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

  • User wants a second opinion from a different AI tool
  • User asks to consult, ask, or cross-check with gemini/codex/claude/opencode/copilot
  • User needs to compare responses across AI tools
  • User wants to validate a decision with an external AI

Arguments

Parse from $ARGUMENTS:

Flag Values Default Description
--tool gemini, codex, claude, opencode, copilot (picker) Target tool
--effort low, medium, high, max medium Thinking effort level
--model any model name (from effort) Override model selection
--context diff, file=PATH, none none Auto-include context
--continue (flag) or SESSION_ID false Resume previous session

Question text is everything in $ARGUMENTS except the flags above.

Provider Configurations

Claude

Command: env -u CLAUDECODE claude -p "QUESTION" --output-format json --model "MODEL" --max-turns TURNS --allowedTools "Read,Glob,Grep"
Session resume: --resume "SESSION_ID"

Models: claude-haiku-4-5, claude-sonnet-4-6, claude-opus-4-6

Effort Model Max Turns
low claude-haiku-4-5 1
medium claude-sonnet-4-6 3
high claude-opus-4-6 5
max claude-opus-4-6 10

Parse output: JSON.parse(stdout).result Session ID: JSON.parse(stdout).session_id Continuable: Yes ACP adapter: npx -y @anthropic-ai/claude-code-acp (see ACP Transport section)

Gemini

Command: gemini -p "QUESTION" --output-format json -m "MODEL"
Session resume: --resume "SESSION_ID"

Models: gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-3-flash-preview, gemini-3-pro-preview, gemini-3.1-pro-preview

Effort Model
low gemini-3-flash-preview
medium gemini-3-flash-preview
high gemini-3.1-pro-preview
max gemini-3.1-pro-preview

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 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. 3d ago First seen · 426 lines · 60 tokens per session scan B 89b7349a4edd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

consult is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent-sh/agentsys (980 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 5,715 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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