ask-user-questions

ask-user-questions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp. It costs 32 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive question tool for collecting answers from a user while an agent is working. It can present choices and accept custom responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask about authentication, design choices, or other project decisions where the agent needs the user's input.
Why use it?
It helps resolve unclear requirements or preferences before the agent makes an implementation decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to ask about authentication, design choices, or other project decisions where the agent needs the user's input.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp/ask-user-questions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp --skill ask-user-questions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 30
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 33
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00032 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5b3ec6b03f47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-user-questions 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-user-questions/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Ask User Questions

Use this tool when you need to ask the user questions during execution. This allows you to:

Gather user preferences or requirements Clarify ambiguous instructions Get decisions on implementation choices as you work Offer choices to the user about what direction to take. Usage notes:

Users will always be able to select "Other" to provide custom text input Use multiSelect: true to allow multiple answers to be selected for a question Recommend an option unless absolutely necessary, make it the first option in the list and add "(Recommended)" at the end of the label For multiSelect questions, you MAY mark multiple options as "(Recommended)" if several choices are advisable Do NOT use this tool to ask "Is my plan ready?" or "Should I proceed?"

Usage

# Ask questions via CLI
npx auq ask '{"questions": [...]}'

# Or pipe JSON input
echo '{"questions": [...]}' | npx auq ask

Parameters

{
  "questions": [
    {
      "prompt": "Which authentication method would you like to use?",
      "title": "Auth",
      "options": [
        {"label": "JWT (Recommended)", "description": "Stateless, scalable"},
        {"label": "Session cookies", "description": "Traditional, server-side"}
      ],
      "multiSelect": false
    }
  ]
}
Field Type Required Description
questions array Yes 1-5 question objects
questions[].prompt string Yes Full question text
questions[].title string Yes Short label (max 12 chars)
questions[].options array Yes 2-5 options with label and optional description
questions[].multiSelect boolean Yes Allow multiple selections
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. 12d ago First seen · 61 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5b3ec6b03f47

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ask-user-questions is a skill published in the GitHub repository paulp-o/ask-user-questions-mcp (146 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 463 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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