asta-assistant

asta-assistant is a skill for Claude Code from maxwellsdm1867/wheeler. It costs 77 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ask, MIT.

A long-running research workflow that starts from a question or plan in the Wheeler knowledge graph, gives it to Asta Research Assistant, and brings the completed results back into the graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a research mission from existing Wheeler material, run it with /loop, and import the finished results.
Why use it?
It provides a structured handoff for extended research instead of requiring you to manage the mission setup and result collection manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the wh plugin — 41 skills, 40 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a research mission from existing Wheeler material, run it with /loop, and import the finished results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler/asta-assistant
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 maxwellsdm1867/wheeler --skill asta-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 40 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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 80% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00071

Measured 9d ago against content hash 43b66499c8cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asta-assistant 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.

Origin

This is a copy

80% identical to ask — 61 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/asta-assistant/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Call get_act on the wheeler_core MCP server with name="asta-assistant", then follow the returned instructions exactly. They are the authoritative definition of this act. Do not improvise the workflow or substitute your own plan for it.

Pass host="codex" when running under Codex so the orchestration guidance matches the tools this host actually has.

Mode: write. Orchestration: none.

If get_act is unavailable, the Wheeler MCP servers are not connected. Say so rather than guessing at the workflow: acting without the act text is how provenance gets silently skipped.

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 · 61 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 43b66499c8cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asta-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxwellsdm1867/wheeler (11 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 713 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 80% identical to ask, differing in 61 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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