ask

ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS-Blue. It costs 63 tokens per session (965 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-and-answer skill for collecting information from the user before continuing with a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run single or multiple-choice questions, gather free-text answers, clarify ambiguous requests, and confirm choices during planning.
Why use it?
It prevents work from proceeding with missing requirements or an unclear choice, and can pause until the user replies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps run single or multiple-choice questions, gather free-text answers, clarify ambiguous requests, and confirm choices during planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icewhaletech/zimaos-blue/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 IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS-Blue --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS-Blue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 965 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 $0.00063 $0.00965
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 9d ago against content hash 46aa4473b7bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

assets/skills/ask/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Skill

Setup

No external dependencies required. This skill uses the built-in ask capability.


Task Routing

Based on user intent, choose the corresponding ask action:

User Intent Action
User explicitly asks for question flow (e.g. "ask me questions", "用 ask 技能问我问题") Run one blue ask call immediately (prefer questions='[...]' for multi-question flows)
Requirement is ambiguous and you must clarify before choosing a strategy Run blue ask to collect missing constraints/preferences
MCP internal Plan mode requires a confirmation/clarification gate Run blue ask before continuing plan execution
Multi-step questionnaire/interview (Q1/Q2/Q3) Use a single blue ask questions='[...]' call whenever possible
Multiple valid implementation approaches Run blue ask to get explicit user choice before execution

Command Usage

Preferred Single-Question Format

blue ask q="Choose a deploy strategy" a='["Canary","Blue-Green"]'

Multi-Question Format (Recommended)

blue ask questions='[
  {"question":"How should I address you?","type":"radio","options":["Alex","A."]},
  {"question":"Preferred language?","type":"radio","options":["zh","en"]},
  {"question":"请假时长?","type":"text"},
  {"question":"邮件收件人是?","type":"radio","options":["直属上级","HR","两者都抄送"]}
]'

Do not continue staged questionnaires via plain assistant text (e.g. "continnue second question..."). Each follow-up must be another blue ask call.


Input Format

Field Requirement Notes
questions Preferred Array of question objects
type Required per item radio, checkbox, or text
options Conditional Required for radio/checkbox; omit for text
q + a Shorthand Single-question shorthand
mq + a Shorthand Multi-choice shorthand

Example payload:

[
  {
    "question": "Which environment should we use?",
    "type": "radio",
    "options": ["Staging", "Production"]
  },
  {
    "question": "How long is the leave?",
    "type": "text"
  }
]

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 46aa4473b7bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS-Blue (25 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 965 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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