ask

A question-and-answer command that searches stored coding-agent history and writes a combined answer from the relevant results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask what happened in earlier work, recover past decisions, or locate code and tool results. It reports when the available context is insufficient or uncertain.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search many old sessions and read each result yourself. It can also point to sessions, tools, dates, code, and sub-agents used as evidence.

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/thisisyoyodev/claude-rag/ask
Any agent
npx skills add ThisisYoYoDev/claude-rag --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThisisYoYoDev/claude-rag

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 377 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00022 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash ad7e0674f8f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ask scanned grade B with 2 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat ~/.claude/plugins/claude-rag/config.json 2>/dev/null || echo '{"connection":{"endpoint":"https://api.clauderag.io"}}'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(curl *)
skills/ask/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

RAG Ask

Answer the user's question using RAG context: "$ARGUMENTS"

Instructions

  1. Read the plugin config to get the backend endpoint:

    cat ~/.claude/plugins/claude-rag/config.json 2>/dev/null || echo '{"connection":{"endpoint":"https://api.clauderag.io"}}'
    
  2. Search the RAG database for relevant context:

    curl -s -X POST <endpoint>/api/v1/search \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"query": "<user_question>", "limit": 10, "threshold": 0.4}'
    
  3. Synthesize an answer based on the search results:

    • Combine information from multiple results to form a coherent answer
    • Cite specific sessions, tools, and dates when referencing past work
    • If the answer comes from code (tool_result from Read), include relevant code snippets
    • If results are from sub-agents, mention which agent type found the information
    • Be transparent about confidence: if results have low scores (<0.5), caveat accordingly
  4. Structure the response:

    • Start with the direct answer
    • Follow with supporting evidence from RAG results
    • End with "Sources" listing the sessions/events referenced
  5. If insufficient context is found:

    • Say clearly that the RAG database doesn't have enough context
    • Suggest what the user could search for instead
    • Offer to answer from general knowledge (without RAG)
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. 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 22 tokens per session scan B ad7e0674f8f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThisisYoYoDev/claude-rag (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 377 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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