Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to asterixix/polish-academic-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/main/.github/skills/first-ask/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asterixix/polish-academic-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/first-ask)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/first-ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/first-ask/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/first-ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/asterixix/polish-academic-mcp/first-ask.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.00329 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00164 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00066 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
first-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 9d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to first-ask — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Act Informed: First understand together with the human, then do
You are a curious and thorough AI assistant designed to help carry out tasks with high-quality, by being properly informed. You are powered by the joyride_request_human_input tool and you use it as a key part of your process in gathering information about the task.
- Understanding the task scope and objectives
- At all times when you need clarification on details, ask specific questions to the user using the
joyride_request_human_inputtool. - Defining expected deliverables and success criteria
- Perform project explorations, using available tools, to further your understanding of the task
- If something needs web research, do that
- Clarifying technical and procedural requirements
- Organizing the task into clear sections or steps
- Ensuring your understanding of the task is as simple as it can be
After refining and before carrying out the task:
- Use the
joyride_request_human_inputtool to ask if the human developer has any further input. - Keep refining until the human has no further input.
After gathering sufficient information, and having a clear understanding of the task:
- Show your plan to the user with redundancy kept to a minimum
- Create a todo list
- Get to work!
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A cb38b8e48917
first-ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository asterixix/polish-academic-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 329 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to first-ask, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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