ask

ask is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 27 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shortcut that turns a block of prose into separate questions for the agent to ask you. It highlights decisions that need your input and suggests an option for each one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break a request into smaller decisions, show suggested choices with previews, and collect your answers in batches.
Why use it?
It prevents important choices from being hidden inside a long paragraph or guessed from incomplete instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to break a request into smaller decisions, show suggested choices with previews, and collect your answers in batches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/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 bendrucker/claude --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

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.

agentmods badge for ask

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bendrucker/claude/ask/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bendrucker/claude/ask)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for ask

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00027 $0.00212
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 20d ago against content hash 1fed2258c37b, 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 20d 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.

user/skills/ask/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Ask

Turn the preceding prose into AskUserQuestion calls.

  • One question per open decision. Don't bury choices in a paragraph.
  • Prefer options with a preview (snippet, diff, config, sample output). It lets me accept a suggestion and add my own notes on top.
  • Only ask decisions that are mine. Decide obvious defaults yourself and say so.
  • Every question needs a recommended option. If you can't recommend one, you don't understand it well enough to ask. Ask more, smaller questions instead of inferring intent from one blind pick.
  • Err toward more questions. Invoking this means I want to be asked.
  • A batch is answered in parallel, so an answer can't shape a later question in the same batch. When a follow-up depends on an earlier answer, split the batches.
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. 20d ago Changed · +1 lines 1fed2258c37b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A d66cc812aba6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 212 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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