A way to ask a locally installed Claude or Gemini command-line tool for a focused review, idea, or second opinion. The response is saved as an artifact that can be reused later.

Use it for focused questions, code reviews, brainstorming, or a second opinion from Claude or Gemini.

It gives you another model’s perspective when you want help checking an approach or exploring alternatives.

ask — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by mrzhangguoguo

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 mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy --skill ask

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/ask.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 493 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.00493
Opus 5	$0.00028	$0.00246
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00099
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00049

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9fa0c246b46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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/ask/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Ported from oh-my-codex ask. OMX runtime conventions ($macro invocation, omx CLI, .omx/ state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list, .workbuddy/memory).

Ask (Local Advisor CLI)

Use a locally installed external advisor CLI for focused questions, reviews, brainstorming, or second opinions. This skill replaces the separate ask-claude and ask-gemini skills.

Usage

Invoke with a backend and a question or task, for example:

ask claude <question or task>
ask gemini <question or task>

Backend selection

Use claude when the user asks for Claude, Anthropic, or the previous ask-claude behavior.
Use gemini when the user asks for Gemini or the previous ask-gemini behavior.
If no backend is specified, choose the installed backend that best matches the user request; if neither is clearly available, explain that a local CLI is required.

Local CLI commands

Claude:

claude -p "{{ARGUMENTS}}"

Gemini:

gemini -p "{{ARGUMENTS}}"

If needed, adapt to the user's installed CLI variant while keeping local execution as the default path. Do not silently switch to an MCP or remote provider when the local binary is missing.

Artifact requirement

After local execution, save a markdown artifact under a project-relative path:

.omw/ask/ask-<backend>-<slug>-<timestamp>.md

Minimum artifact sections:

Original user task
Backend and final prompt sent to the CLI
Raw CLI output
Concise summary
Action items / next steps

Task: {{ARGUMENTS}}

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.

12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A b9fa0c246b46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 493 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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