askme

askme is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,604 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A clarification workflow for unclear requests. It asks groups of questions and confirms the intended task before planning begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a software request, refine goals with a user, or examine a proposed plan from several angles before work starts.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong thing when requirements are incomplete, ambiguous, or open to interpretation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/askme
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill askme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

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.

agentmods badge for askme

README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,604 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00069 $0.01604
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00802
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00160

Measured yesterday against content hash 9168ed42cb6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 yesterday.

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.

.devin/skills/askme/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask me

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Ambiguous task, maximum clarification needed, or explicit exhaustive/collaborative/adversarial askme mode.
Authority Read-only: no file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation. Emits chat output only.
Side effect Verbalized Sampling output and batched question sets written to chat; nothing persisted.
Done Every clarifying question is answered or discharged and intent is confirmed.

Inputs

  • The user's task or request (required).
  • Optional mode argument: exhaustive (default), collaborative, or adversarial. Auto-detected from invoking phrasing; an explicit mode argument always overrides auto-detection. Callers with no mode arg get exhaustive.
  • An ask-user tool exposing single-select and multi-select questions (the harness equivalent of AskUserQuestion). Required to fire question batches; if absent, fall back to sequential chat prompts.

Procedure

  1. Select mode. Auto-detect from invoking phrasing: help me refine, walk through with me, let's brainstorm, share tips → collaborative; poke holes, stress-test, grill, find weaknesses → adversarial; anything else or no qualifier → exhaustive. An explicit mode argument always wins over auto-detection.

  2. exhaustive mode — Verbalized Sampling (VS). Sample multiple intent hypotheses; assign each a probability weight on a 0–1 scale; state the falsifier (the specific observation or scenario that would invalidate it) per hypothesis. Expand hypothesis depth as ambiguity, risk, or architectural surface grows; keep it concise when scope is truly narrow. Render the VS block in this format before the first question fire:

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]
  1. exhaustive mode — exploration. Deliberately seek unconventional, underexplored, and edge-case possibilities relating to the user's objective, drawing on context and plausible but non-obvious requirements. Include at least 3 edge cases (at least 5 if architectural); stop expanding once additional cases no longer change decisions. Broaden sampling if no clear leader emerges. Synthesize surviving hypotheses into one consolidated direction before responding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 9168ed42cb6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

askme is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,604 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 2026-09-03.

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