agent-assistant-ask-hard

agent-assistant-ask-hard is a skill for Codex from hainamchung/agent-assistant. It costs 31 tokens per session (181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts the Agent Assistant’s hard research workflow when the user types `/ask:hard`. Agent Assistant is an external research assistant setup with its own rules, commands, and specialized instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for `/ask:hard` requests that require external research and a detailed analysis workflow.
Why use it?
It provides a defined route for research questions that need comprehensive analysis. The workflow loads its central rules and the instructions for the hard-question command.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for /ask:hard requests that require external research and a detailed analysis workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hainamchung/agent-assistant/agent-assistant-ask-hard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hainamchung/agent-assistant --skill agent-assistant-ask-hard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hainamchung/agent-assistant

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 181 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 $0.00031 $0.00181
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00018

Measured 10d ago against content hash 85d8a89f3acb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-assistant-ask-hard 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 10d 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

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

code-assistants/antigravity-assistant/skills/agent-assistant-ask-hard/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

/ask:hard

Activates Agent Assistant /ask:hard workflow.

Rules

  1. Load first: ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/agent-assistant/rules/CORE.md — follow all 10 Laws
  2. Agents: Spawn via Codex native multi-agent (~/.gemini/antigravity/agents/)
  3. Skills: Resolve from ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/agent-assistant/matrix-skills/

Workflow

Load and follow: ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/agent-assistant/commands/ask/hard.md

Files

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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 19 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 85d8a89f3acb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-assistant-ask-hard is a skill published in the GitHub repository hainamchung/agent-assistant (54 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 181 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 2026-08-30.

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