cmd_aside

cmd_aside is a skill for Claude Code from majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to ask a short side question while another coding task is in progress. It preserves the current task context and then resumes it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Getting quick explanations of code, design choices, errors, or technical risks during ongoing work.
Why use it?
It lets developers resolve small uncertainties without abandoning or restarting their main task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Getting quick explanations of code, design choices, errors, or technical risks during ongoing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiang213/openclaw-mas/cmd_aside
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 majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS --skill cmd_aside
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,399 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 $0.00026 $0.01399
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00140

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0daa5ac4d0f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmd_aside 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.

skills/cmd_aside/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Path

The first argument is the project path. Before doing anything else:

  1. Extract the project path from the first argument
  2. Verify the path exists
  3. Work within that directory for all file operations and shell commands

Aside Command

Ask a question mid-task and get an immediate, focused answer — then continue right where you left off. The current task, files, and context are never modified.

When to Use

  • You're curious about something while Claude is working and don't want to lose momentum
  • You need a quick explanation of code Claude is currently editing
  • You want a second opinion or clarification on a decision without derailing the task
  • You need to understand an error, concept, or pattern before Claude proceeds
  • You want to ask something unrelated to the current task without starting a new session

Usage

/aside <your question>
/aside what does this function actually return?
/aside is this pattern thread-safe?
/aside why are we using X instead of Y here?
/aside what's the difference between foo() and bar()?
/aside should we be worried about the N+1 query we just added?

Process

Step 1: Freeze the current task state

Before answering anything, mentally note:

  • What is the active task? (what file, feature, or problem was being worked on)
  • What step was in progress at the moment /aside was invoked?
  • What was about to happen next?

Do NOT touch, edit, create, or delete any files during the aside.

Step 2: Answer the question directly

Answer the question in the most concise form that is still complete and useful.

  • Lead with the answer, not the reasoning
  • Keep it short — if a full explanation is needed, offer to go deeper after the task
  • If the question is about the current file or code being worked on, reference it precisely (file path and line number if relevant)
  • If answering requires reading a file, read it — but read only, never write

Format the response as:

ASIDE: [restate the question briefly]

[Your answer here]

— Back to task: [one-line description of what was being done]

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 6d ago First seen · 177 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 0daa5ac4d0f7

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cmd_aside is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,399 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 2026-09-03.