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ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JetXu-LLM/DocMason. It costs 29 tokens per session (6,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

The default natural-language question workflow for a DocMason workspace. It routes an ordinary request to the appropriate internal process and records the conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general questions and requests that are not explicit setup, status, synchronisation, adapter-maintenance, or operator-review tasks.
Why use it?
It lets users ask for help normally instead of learning internal workflow names or repository details first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is cat <<'JSON' | ./.venv/bin/python -m docmason _ask.

not rated 152repo +1 yesterday A scan SkillSpector: warn 29 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it for general questions and requests that are not explicit setup, status, synchronisation, adapter-maintenance, or operator-review tasks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JetXu-LLM/DocMason
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jetxu-llm/docmason/ask

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 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,067 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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 Excessive Agency · line 280
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.06067
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.02427
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.01213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00607

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 325e74481a63, 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 2mo 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.

skills/canonical/ask/SKILL.md · 401 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 401 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask

ask is the canonical skill at skills/canonical/ask/SKILL.md. It is the user-facing top-level workflow for ordinary natural-language requests. Use this skill as the default top-level workflow for a new ordinary user request in this workspace unless the request is clearly explicit operator work.

The user should be able to ask naturally. They should not need to name internal workflow IDs or repository mechanics first.

If the request is clearly an explicit setup, status, sync, adapter-maintenance, or operator-review request, switch to the matching top-level workflow instead of forcing it through ask.

Front-Door Law

  • Reading this skill is not legal ask execution.
  • Native-thread reconciliation is not legal ask execution.
  • ask itself remains the only ordinary natural-language front door, and a request counts as ordinary front-door execution only after it has been opened as a canonical ask turn under this workflow.
  • Plan Mode or a similar host planning/collaboration mode should not discourage the host from opening canonical ask for an ordinary user request; if the current mode still blocks ask, the host should use a concise in-band alert or approval question and continue the same user task in the most natural available way rather than silently defaulting to operator-direct or side-path work.
  • See Canonical Ask Contract below for the exact ordinary-ask opening and completion rules. Generated adapter guidance may restate that contract, but it does not replace this workflow surface, and compatible hosts must use that supported entry surface rather than helper stitching, ad hoc probing, or direct lifecycle calls.
  • Direct evidence commands such as public retrieve or trace remain legal operator tools, but they do not complete the ordinary ask contract by themselves.

ask owns front-door legality, same-turn governance, workspace gating, and routing. The routed inner workflow owns the deeper evidence loop.

Turn Terms

  • native turn means the host's own chat turn before DocMason opens canonical ask handling.
  • canonical ask turn means the governed DocMason turn for the current request.
  • runtime ownership means the current request has been opened into that canonical ask turn and is now governed by DocMason.
  • native ledger means host-side audit capture that is not canonical ask truth by itself.
  • interaction-ingest means the runtime holding area for reconciled host activity before any governed promotion.
  • A practical sign that canonical ask really opened is that the request leaves linked runtime artifacts rather than only a host-visible reply, typically under runtime/answers/, runtime/runs/, and runtime/logs/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 401 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 401 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 325e74481a63

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ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository JetXu-LLM/DocMason (152 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 6,067 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 2026-08-30.

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