askme

askme is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning aid for unclear tasks that explores several possible meanings before deciding what to do. It can ask focused questions and support collaborative or adversarial discussion modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when requirements are ambiguous, when important choices need to be surfaced, or when edge cases and competing interpretations must be examined.
Why use it?
It helps prevent coding work from starting with the wrong understanding of the request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the odin plugin — 29 skills, 14 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it when requirements are ambiguous, when important choices need to be surfaced, or when edge cases and competing interpretations must be examined.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/askme
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill askme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 14 plugins.

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.

agentmods badge for askme

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/askme.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/askme)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/askme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/askme.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,056 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.02056
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00206

Measured 8d ago against content hash f09a36de55ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askme 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 8d 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/askme/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask Me Command

Before proceeding to ask planning questions, you must proactively and critically execute both Verbalized Sampling (VS) and exploration:

  • For Verbalized Sampling, sample multiple intent hypotheses, assign each an explicit probability weight (0 to 1 scale), and identify the specific observation or scenario that would falsify each before selecting a direction. Expand hypothesis depth as ambiguity, risk, or architectural surface grows; keep it concise when scope is truly narrow. Explore meaningful edge cases until additional cases stop changing the decision; broaden sampling if no clear leader emerges. Surface decision points early with concrete options and trade-offs. Synthesize surviving hypotheses into one consolidated direction before responding. Output should stay compact and decision-oriented: intent summary, assumptions, and focused questions. Do not proceed on non-trivial changes without visible VS.

Required VS Output Format:

1. [Weight: 0.42] hypothesis here
   - Falsifier: [observation or scenario that would invalidate this]

2. [Weight: 0.28] hypothesis here
   - Falsifier: [observation or scenario that would invalidate this]
  • For exploration, deliberately seek out unconventional, underexplored, and edge-case possibilities relating to the user's objective, drawing on both the provided context and plausible but non-obvious requirements. Include at least 3 edge cases (at least 5 if architectural), and stop expanding once additional cases no longer change decisions.

Only after completing both critical VS and exploration steps, proceed to use the question tool to ask the maximum possible number of precise, clarifying, and challenging planning questions that address the problem space fully, taking into account uncertainty, gaps, and ambiguous requirements.

Modes [LOAD-BEARING]

askme is intentionally one skill with three modes (not split into per-mode skills); callers without a mode arg get exhaustive (the original VS protocol) unchanged. The body above describes exhaustive; the two new modes share the AskUserQuestion contract and antipattern guidance below but differ in posture.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 128 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f09a36de55ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

askme is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,056 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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