ask

ask is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zernie/vigiles. It costs 28 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for sending a question or task to a locally installed Claude, Codex, or Gemini command-line tool and saving the response as an artifact. The artifact is a stored record of that result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Requesting a code review, implementation plan, or design suggestion from one of the supported local AI tools.
Why use it?
It avoids assembling provider-specific command-line options by hand and keeps the advisor's response available for later use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the oh-my-claudecode plugin — 2 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/zernie/vigiles/ask
Any agent
npx skills add zernie/vigiles --skill ask
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zernie/vigiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install oh-my-claudecode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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 ask

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zernie/vigiles/ask.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zernie/vigiles/ask)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zernie/vigiles/ask"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zernie/vigiles/ask.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 344 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 $0.00028 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7d46d2ad08df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • ask — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • ask — 100% identical, 27 lines differ
test/dogfood/oh-my-claudecode@deee3a4/skills/ask/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Ask

Use OMC's canonical advisor skill to route a prompt through the local Claude, Codex, or Gemini CLI and persist the result as an ask artifact.

Usage

/oh-my-claudecode:ask <claude|codex|gemini> <question or task>

Examples:

/oh-my-claudecode:ask codex "review this patch from a security perspective"
/oh-my-claudecode:ask gemini "suggest UX improvements for this flow"
/oh-my-claudecode:ask claude "draft an implementation plan for issue #123"

Routing

Required execution path — always use this command:

omc ask {{ARGUMENTS}}

Do NOT manually construct raw provider CLI commands. Never run codex, claude, or gemini directly to fulfill this skill. The omc ask wrapper handles correct flag selection, artifact persistence, and provider-version compatibility automatically. Manually assembling provider CLI flags will produce incorrect or outdated invocations.

Requirements

  • The selected local CLI must be installed and authenticated.
  • Verify availability with the matching command:
claude --version
codex --version
gemini --version

Artifacts

omc ask writes artifacts to:

.omc/artifacts/ask/<provider>-<slug>-<timestamp>.md

Task: {{ARGUMENTS}}

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 · 54 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7d46d2ad08df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ask is a skill published in the GitHub repository zernie/vigiles (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 344 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 2026-08-30.