ask-agents

A routing guide that selects the right user-only workflow for planning, documentation, teaching, or help writing agent instructions. It directs work such as refining an idea, creating a plan, filing issues, implementing changes, and reviewing a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to grill an idea, update project documents, create a multi-session plan, diagnose a bug, improve architecture, harden a pull request, or get help authoring agent workflows.
Why use it?
It helps choose an appropriate process before work begins and keeps planning decisions, implementation sessions, and review steps organized.

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/stainless-code/codemap/ask-agents
Any agent
npx skills add stainless-code/codemap --skill ask-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stainless-code/codemap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 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 $0.00026 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured yesterday against content hash 340a32f285d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ask-agents 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.

.agents/skills/ask-agents/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask agents (router)

Zero context load — you pick the workflow.

The main flow: idea → ship

  1. /grill-with-docs — sharpen the idea; inline updates to docs/ (architecture / roadmap / glossary / plans) as decisions land. No codebase yet? Use /grill-me (standalone below).
  2. Branch — multi-session build?
    • Yes → capture plan in docs/plans/<name>.md → split into GitHub issues. Fresh session per issue.
    • No → tracer bullets + tdd + workflow skills appropriate to this repo in the same window.
  3. /harden-pr — lite after each tracer slice; full before PR ready.

Context hygiene

Keep grilling + plan authoring in one window until issues are filed. Each implement session starts fresh from the plan/issue. If the window nears the smart zone, write a compact plan in docs/plans/.

Codebase health (not feature work)

  • /improve-codebase-architecture — surface deepening opportunities; pick one → back to main flow at grill-with-docs.
  • /diagnosing-bugs — hard bugs and perf regressions (model-invoked skill — not a router target).
  • Periodic hygiene: /docs-lifecycle-sweep on docs/ (model-invoked).

Crossing sessions

  • /compact — built-in: same session, summarized history — use only at phase breaks.
  • Fresh session — start from docs/plans/<name>.md or the GitHub issue.

Standalone

Invoke When
grill-me Sharpen a plan with no codebase (stateless)
writing-great-skills Skill vocabulary + principles
writing-agents-config Codemap repo tier/pairing deltas
domain-modeling Ubiquitous language inline + batch glossary
tdd RED→GREEN tracer-bullet TDD
verify-after-each-step Per-file checks after each milestone
diagnosing-bugs Debug loop for hard bugs
teach Multi-session learning workspace (missions, lessons, retrieval practice)

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 340a32f285d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository stainless-code/codemap (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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