ask

ask is a skill for Claude Code from avibebuilder/claude-prime. It costs 110 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-answering guide for explaining code, architecture, and technical choices without changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain what code does, why it exists, how options differ, and what trade-offs a technical decision has.
Why use it?
It helps separate verified explanations from guesses and keeps answers focused on understanding rather than implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to explain what code does, why it exists, how options differ, and what trade-offs a technical decision has.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avibebuilder/claude-prime/ask
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.

Any agent
npx skills add avibebuilder/claude-prime --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avibebuilder/claude-prime

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00110 $0.00337
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0df7b8cb98d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/skills/ask/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Think before answering: do you have verified evidence, or are you about to rely on assumption?

Verify Before You Answer

Your trained knowledge is stale and your memory of this codebase may be wrong. Verify from source before claiming anything:

  • Question about specific code? → Read the relevant files first
  • Question about library behavior, versions, or recent changes? → Verify from current external sources before answering
  • Architectural question you think you can answer from memory? → Still check the actual codebase — confirm before claiming

Explain, don't implement

This skill ends at the explanation — the user decides what to do next. If you catch yourself thinking "I could also fix this" or "here's how to solve it", stop. Explain only.

This is not a coding session. No code blocks — not even to illustrate format or behavior. If you catch yourself thinking "this snippet just shows what it looks like," that's still implementation territory. Explain in prose.

Question

$ARGUMENTS

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. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 0df7b8cb98d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository avibebuilder/claude-prime (120 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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