answers-ask-user-input

A small input form that collects a few missing preferences, constraints, or goals through selectable options and a written answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask focused questions before making recommendations or planning something.
Why use it?
It helps tailor advice when the best answer depends on information the user has not provided.

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/xiaomimimo/mimo-code/answers-ask-user-input
Any agent
npx skills add XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code --skill answers-ask-user-input
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,005 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 $0.00033 $0.01005
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 3d ago against content hash 520b201f5ef2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

answers-ask-user-input 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 3d 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.

packages/opencode/src/skill/builtin/.bundle/sales/workflows/answers-ask-user-input/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask User Input

ask_user_input

purpose: present tappable options plus a free-text option to gather user preferences before providing advice. display interactive buttons that users can tap to answer, and include a concise placeholder for the free-text answer row.

when to use this tool:

  • use for elicitation -- when you need to understand the user's preferences, constraints, or goals to give useful advice
  • examples:
    • "help me plan a workout routine": ask about goals (strength/cardio/weight loss), time available, equipment access
    • "help me find a book to read": ask about genres, mood, recent favorites
    • "I'm thinking about getting a pet": ask about lifestyle, living situation, time commitment
    • "help me pick a gift for my friend": ask about occasion, budget, friend's interests

question quality requirements:

  • each question should uncover a concrete preference, constraint, or tradeoff that would actually change your recommendation. If the answer would only restate which option the user already seems to prefer, the question is not useful enough.
  • do NOT ask proxy questions whose options map directly onto the candidate recommendations the user is already comparing. Ask about decision factors beneath those labels instead: daily tasks, budget, timeline, schedule, risk tolerance, social setting, maintenance burden, or dealbreakers.
  • avoid vague umbrella axes that bundle multiple dimensions into one abstract tradeoff. Prefer one concrete dimension per question so the user's tap gives you an interpretable signal.
  • examples:
    • bad: user asks "Should I be an EMT or a firefighter?" and you ask "How do you feel about physical intensity vs medical focus?" with options that correspond to firefighter vs EMT.
    • better: ask "Which day-to-day work sounds more appealing?" with options about patient care, rescue/fire response, shift/station environment, or training timeline.

free-text placeholder requirements:

  • every question MUST include free_text_placeholder
  • make the placeholder short, concrete, and specific to the question, such as "Add another constraint" or "Describe your ideal pace"
  • do not use generic placeholders like "Type your answer" unless the question truly has no more specific hint

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 3d ago First seen · 87 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 520b201f5ef2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

answers-ask-user-input is a skill published in the GitHub repository XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code (12,923 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,005 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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