wave-ask

wave-ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wave-av/mcp-server. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A proposal tool for WAVE, a media-processing service. Given a plain-language goal, it suggests a pipeline such as captions, clips, dubbing, real-time processing, or identity handling, but does not run it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning media workflows and preparing a proposal for a WAVE tool or product.
Why use it?
It helps turn an intended media job into a possible sequence of service calls before anything is executed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Planning media workflows and preparing a proposal for a WAVE tool or product.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wave-av/mcp-server/wave-ask
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wave-av/mcp-server --skill wave-ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wave-av/mcp-server

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 wave-ask

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wave-av/mcp-server/wave-ask.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wave-av/mcp-server/wave-ask)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wave-av/mcp-server/wave-ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wave-av/mcp-server/wave-ask.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,390 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.01390
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00695
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00139

Measured today against content hash c1269e88027a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wave-ask 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 today.

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/wave-ask/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: wave-ask / wave_compose

wave_compose is the registered successor to wave.ask (mcp-server PR4-MCP). It takes the same kind of input and, when a WAVE_API_KEY is configured, also tries the live gateway POST /v1/compose route first (grounding: "gateway"), falling back to exactly the composition logic documented below (grounding: "snapshot") when no key is set or the live call fails, errors, or times out after 3 seconds. wave.ask is kept, unchanged, as an offline-only alias for one release — everything below applies to both, except wave_compose's input field is intent (not question) and its output additionally carries grounding.

When to use

An agent has a media-processing goal (captions, clips, dub, identity, x402 rails) and wants the WAVE product/MCP tool/price shape for it before calling. "Identity" resolves via the real identity_resolve MCP tool only — no dedicated identity product exists in the catalog yet, so its proposal's productIds is empty by design, never a fabricated id.

When NOT to use

Already know the route — call it directly. Need the full contract — read https://api.wave.online/openapi.json or this server's live tools/list listing instead.

How to call

MCP: wave_compose({ intent: "<goal>", budgetUsd?: <number> }) — registered alongside every other tool in this package's src/tools/index.ts. (The deprecated wave.ask({ question: "<goal>", budgetUsd?: <number> }) alias still works identically for one release.)

{ "intent": "live captions from my mic" }

budgetUsd is optional and never used to compute or invent a price — it only reorders which suggestion in next[] is surfaced first (a reminder to confirm the live 402 quote against it before calling).

What you get back

A proposal object:

{
  "intent": "live captions from my mic",
  "stages": ["realtime", "transcribe", "captions"],
  "productIds": ["realtime", "transcribe", "captions"],
  "tools": ["perception_subscribe", "wave_create_caption_job", "wave_list_captions", "wave_download_captions"],
  "meters": ["wave_realtime_video_minutes", "wave_transcription_minutes", "wave_caption_minutes"],
  "priceRows": [
    { "productId": "realtime", "meter": "wave_realtime_video_minutes", "priceShape": "x402 · USDC · base", "quote": "quote at call time" },
    { "productId": "transcribe", "meter": "wave_transcription_minutes", "priceShape": "x402 · USDC · base", "quote": "quote at call time" },
    { "productId": "captions", "meter": "wave_caption_minutes", "priceShape": "x402 · USDC · base", "quote": "quote at call time" }
  ],
  "executes": false,
  "next": [
    "adjacent capability: translated captions in a second language",
    "agent path via MCP: call perception_subscribe directly once you're ready to execute this yourself",
    "saved-flow signup: keep this composition for next time (post-GA)"
  ],
  "grounding": "snapshot"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. today First seen · 101 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c1269e88027a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wave-ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository wave-av/mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,390 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 2026-09-07.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

breaking-down-work

Decomposes a goal, feature, epic, or deliverable into a structured task tree (tasks, subtasks, checklists) with dependencies in Astravue. Use when the user wants to break down, decompose, or plan out work, turn an epic or feature into tasks, "split this into tasks", scope a deliverable, or build a work breakdown…

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 81 tokens

capturing-meeting-actions

Extracts action items from meeting notes, transcripts, or a brain dump and creates them as owned, dated tasks in Astravue. Use when the user pastes meeting notes or a transcript, asks to turn notes or standup discussion into tasks, capture action items, or "make tasks out of this".

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 68 tokens

triaging-overdue-work

Reviews overdue and at-risk tasks in Astravue, assesses why each is slipping, and proposes reschedule, reassign, deprioritize, or close actions before applying them. Use when the user asks what's overdue, behind schedule, slipping, or at risk, wants to catch up on a project, or clean up late work.

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 73 tokens

mapping-dependencies

Maps task dependencies in an Astravue project, finds the critical path and blocked work, and detects circular dependencies before any rescheduling. Use when the user asks about dependencies, blockers, what's blocking what, the critical path, or wants to understand or fix the sequencing of a project.

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 61 tokens

generating-status-report

Generates executive project status reports from Astravue data including task progress, budget consumption, and project health. Use when asked for a status update, project summary, executive report, or "how is the project going?".

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 49 tokens

managing-custom-fields

Creates, configures, and manages custom fields and dropdown options on tasks in Astravue. Use when working with custom fields, adding dropdown options, setting field values on tasks, or asking "what custom fields does this project have?".

AstravueOrg/astravue-mcp-server · 52 tokens