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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JetXu-LLM/DocMasonnpx agentmods add skills/jetxu-llm/docmason/askWrote 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/jetxu-llm/docmason/ask)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jetxu-llm/docmason/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jetxu-llm/docmason/ask.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00029 | $0.06067 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.03034 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.01213 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00607 |
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 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.
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.
askitself 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 Modeor a similar host planning/collaboration mode should not discourage the host from opening canonicalaskfor an ordinary user request; if the current mode still blocksask, 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 Contractbelow 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
retrieveortraceremain 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 turnmeans the host's own chat turn before DocMason opens canonical ask handling.canonical ask turnmeans the governed DocMason turn for the current request.runtime ownershipmeans the current request has been opened into that canonical ask turn and is now governed by DocMason.native ledgermeans host-side audit capture that is not canonical ask truth by itself.interaction-ingestmeans 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/, andruntime/logs/.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 401 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 325e74481a63
ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository JetXu-LLM/DocMason (135 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 6,067 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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