ase-help-intent

ase-help-intent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rse/ase. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An intent matcher for ASE skills, where ASE is a collection of command-like coding helpers. It turns a plain-language request into ranked commands with suggested arguments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the right ASE helper for a task such as fixing code, reading documentation, or running another supported workflow.
Why use it?
It removes the need to know which skill or command name to use. You can choose a suggested command, adjust the request, or cancel.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ase plugin — 47 skills, 8 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

View the source file rse/ase
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/rse/ase/ase-help-intent
Any agent
npx skills add rse/ase --skill ase-help-intent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 8 agents, 5 hooks.

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 ase-help-intent

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rse/ase/ase-help-intent.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rse/ase/ase-help-intent)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rse/ase/ase-help-intent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rse/ase/ase-help-intent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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 $0.00089 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00194

Measured 4d ago against content hash a473c69f18d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-help-intent 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 4d 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.

plugin/skills/ase-help-intent/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

The following is the accumulated help of all ASE skills -- the concatenation of every skill's help.md file -- and is the sole catalog you match against:

  1. REPEAT the following sub-steps in a LOOP until the user either executes one of the generated commands or cancels the dialog in sub-step 4:

    1. Match Intent:

      Match the current against the and select every skill that adequately fits it -- judging the fit primarily by each skill's ## SCENARIOS ("You want ...") and ## DESCRIPTION sections. Order the selected skills from best-fitting to worst-fitting and keep at most the 8 best ones, so the dispatch dialog of sub-step 4 stays addressable. Set to the number of kept skills. Then, for each kept skill (numbered 1 to in rank order), from that skill's ## SYNOPSIS, ## OPTIONS, and ## ARGUMENTS sections in , generate a concrete command that realizes :

      • Set <name/> to the skill's name (e.g. ase-code-lint).
      • Set <arguments/> to the concrete option flags and positional arguments -- derived from the skill's ## OPTIONS and ## ARGUMENTS -- that best realize (may be empty).
      • Set <command>/ase:<name/> <arguments/></command> (the full command line, with surplus inner spaces collapsed).
      • Set <rationale/> to a very brief, single-sentence justification of why this skill and its options match .

      Finally set yes.

    2. Guard No Match:

    3. Render Commands:

      Output the generated commands, in rank order, with the following , where the [...] marks the repetition of the command/rationale line pair for each kept skill from 1 to :

      C<command<n/>/><rationale/>

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 4d ago First seen · 200 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A a473c69f18d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ase-help-intent is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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