ask

ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kimmingul/xllm. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for asking one of several external AI assistants for an opinion and saving the reply as a structured file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send a task to Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, or a local AI model, optionally choosing a model or effort level.
Why use it?
It avoids switching between different AI tools or manually collecting their answers. It also keeps the result in a reusable project artifact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the xllm plugin — 7 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kimmingul/xllm/ask
Any agent
npx skills add kimmingul/xllm --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimmingul/xllm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install xllm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00086 $0.01070
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00107

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7caa0a6b70a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

.grok/skills/ask/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ask — Single-provider headless advisor

Get one authentic external model opinion. Always go through the advisor script.

Resolve the advisor script (mandatory)

Pick the first that exists:

  1. Contents of .xllm/xllm-advisor-path (legacy: .grok/xllm-advisor-path)
  2. $XLLM_ADVISOR_PATH (legacy $XLLM_ADVISOR_PATH)
  3. $GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/xllm-advisor.js or $XLLM_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/…
  4. ./scripts/xllm-advisor.js (plugin repo or vendored copy)

If none exist: tell the user to run /xllm-setup or
node <plugin-checkout>/scripts/xllm.mjs remember from this project. Do not invent CLI flags.

Discovery helpers:

node <advisor.js> --which
node <advisor.js> --remember
node <advisor.js> --doctor
node <advisor.js> --list-providers

Spec syntax

provider
provider:model
provider@effort
provider:model@effort

Examples: codex@high, claude:opus@medium, grok:grok-4.5@high,
antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash-high, ollama:qwen3.6:latest, ollama:qwen3.6:latest@low

Profiles / defaults: .xllm/xllm-providers.toml (legacy .grok/ honored)
(design side prefers antigravity on every platform; the standalone gemini CLI is substituted in only when agy is not on PATH — and vice versa)

Safety defaults

  • Advisors run read-only: no approval bypass, no sandbox escape. Opt in to mutating advisors only when the user explicitly asks: --allow-write (or XLLM_ALLOW_MUTATION=1).
  • Same-provider advising inside that provider's own CLI is refused (--allow-self to override).
  • Artifacts persist prompts/outputs with secret redaction; --no-artifacts prints instead of writing.

Supported providers

Kind Spec Model / effort
Cloud codex -m model, effort via -c model_reasoning_effort=
Cloud claude --model, --effort
Cloud grok -m, --reasoning-effort
Cloud antigravity (preferred over gemini) --model, --effort low|medium|high
Cloud gemini --model (used only when agy is not installed)
Cloud cursor --model when set
Local ollama[:model] model required-ish (default from profile/env)
Local lmstudio[:model] OpenAI body model + optional effort field
Local lemonade LEMONADE_BIN

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 3d ago First seen · 113 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 7caa0a6b70a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository kimmingul/xllm (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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