first-ask

first-ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill. It costs 34 tokens per session (329 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive workflow that asks questions about a task before work begins. It gathers the scope, expected results, constraints, and any missing information from the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Refining task requests, checking project context, clarifying technical requirements, and confirming the plan before execution.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting with unclear requirements or producing the wrong deliverable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Refining task requests, checking project context, clarifying technical requirements, and confirming the plan before execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshi-xixixi/traeskill/first-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 boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill first-ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 329 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 $0.00034 $0.00329
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 6d ago against content hash cb38b8e48917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • first-ask — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/first-ask/SKILL.md · 31 lines

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_input tool.
  • 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_input tool 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:

  1. Show your plan to the user with redundancy kept to a minimum
  2. Create a todo list
  3. Get to work!
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. 6d ago First seen · 31 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A cb38b8e48917

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first-ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (262 stars, last pushed 4mo 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.