askme

askme is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,178 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of askme, Apache-2.0.

A questioning method for exploring what a user intends before planning a coding task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps refine requirements, compare possible interpretations, examine edge cases, and choose a direction for the work.
Why use it?
It exposes ambiguity, alternatives, and possible problems before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps refine requirements, compare possible interpretations, examine edge cases, and choose a direction for the work.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,178 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 100% 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 $0.00106 $0.02178
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00218

Measured 8d ago against content hash 510fe244a58d, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to askme — 0 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/askme/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 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 (0–1 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 holistically address the problem space, 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 · 132 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. 8d ago First seen · 132 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 510fe244a58d

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askme is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,178 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to askme, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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