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.
npx skills add chrisblattman/claudeblattman --skill ask-agentsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattmanWrote 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/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/ask-agents)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/ask-agents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/ask-agents/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/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/ask-agents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/ask-agents.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 45 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00055 | $0.01005 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00502 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00201 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00101 |
Grade A, and why
ask-agents 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Ask Agents
Default Rule
When the user asks to ask Claude, ask Gemini, ask both, split work between them, or get an outside opinion, do it directly with the bundled runner. Do not turn it into an integration discussion.
Privacy Gate
Sending a task to Claude Code or Gemini sends the prompt, listed context files, and any quoted material to another AI service. Before every run, check whether the prompt or context includes confidential records, personal contact details, human-subjects or research-participant data, private transcripts, unpublished sensitive work, or anything the user would not paste into a public website. If so, do not run the external agent. Offer a local Codex-only answer or a redacted prompt for the user to approve first.
If the privacy check passes, ask for explicit send confirmation before every external run: "Send this prompt to Claude/Gemini as an outside opinion? (yes/no)" Proceed only if the user answers yes. If they answer no or do not answer clearly, stop and offer a Codex-only answer.
Requirements
- Node.js 18 or newer (
nodeon your PATH) - For
--agent claude: the Claude Code CLI (claude) installed, signed in, and on your PATH - For
--agent gemini: the Gemini CLI (gemini) installed, signed in, and on your PATH
If a required tool is missing, the runner stops with a plain-language message naming it. Never substitute your own answer while implying the external agent ran.
Runner
The runner is bundled inside this skill at scripts/run-external-agent.mjs:
node ~/.codex/skills/ask-agents/scripts/run-external-agent.mjs --agent claude --prompt "..."
node ~/.codex/skills/ask-agents/scripts/run-external-agent.mjs --agent gemini --prompt "..."
node ~/.codex/skills/ask-agents/scripts/run-external-agent.mjs --agent both --prompt "..."
(If your skills live somewhere other than ~/.codex/skills, adjust the path — the script is in this skill's own folder.)
Defaults:
cwd: the folder the command is run from (your current project)- Run records: a temporary folder under the system temp directory
- Timeout: 300 seconds
- Output cap: 50,000 bytes
- Claude caps: 8 turns, $2 budget
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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 · 110 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 37578de36014
ask-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisblattman/claudeblattman (454 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,005 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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