Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation.

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Install Ask

skills CLI
$ npx skills add avibebuilder/claude-prime --skill ask -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install avibebuilder/claude-prime ask --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avibebuilder/claude-prime.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .claude/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ask
GitHub stars
120
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~395 tokens
SKILL.md length
154 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation.

  • Questions asking why
  • SKILL.md covers Verify Before You Answer, Explain, don't implement and Question
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • What does this do

What it does

Ask is an agent skill from avibebuilder/claude-prime. Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation. Trigger on questions asking 'why', 'what does this do', 'what is the purpose of', 'explain', 'what's the difference', 'compare', or 'what are the tradeoffs' — even when referencing specific files, code snippets, or inline code. The key signal is the user wants to UNDERSTAND something, not change it. Do NOT trigger for requests to build, fix, plan, review, research, or add/modify code.

Its SKILL.md is about 400 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: You've heard Claude Code can do amazing things. Skills, hooks, agents, memory systems — but who has time to figure all that out? Claude Prime sets it up for you in one command. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Questions asking why
  • What does this do
  • What is the purpose of
  • Whats the difference

Example prompts

  • “what does this do”
  • “what is the purpose of”
  • “explain”
  • “/ask”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 80bcfa4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ask loads about 395 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 120 tokens; SKILL.md has 154 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~120
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~395

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from avibebuilder/claude-prime at commit 80bcfa4, republished under its MIT licence (© avibebuilder). 154 words, ~395 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ask/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ask
description
Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation. Trigger on questions asking 'why', 'what does this do', 'what is the purpose of', 'explain', 'what's the difference', 'compare', or 'what are the tradeoffs' — even when referencing specific files, code snippets, or inline code. The key signal is the user wants to UNDERSTAND something, not change it. Do NOT trigger for requests to build, fix, plan, review, research, or add/modify code.
argument-hint
question

Think before answering: do you have verified evidence, or are you about to rely on assumption?

Verify Before You Answer

Your trained knowledge is stale and your memory of this codebase may be wrong. Verify from source before claiming anything:

  • Question about specific code? → Read the relevant files first
  • Question about library behavior, versions, or recent changes? → Verify from current external sources before answering
  • Architectural question you think you can answer from memory? → Still check the actual codebase — confirm before claiming

Explain, don't implement

This skill ends at the explanation — the user decides what to do next. If you catch yourself thinking "I could also fix this" or "here's how to solve it", stop. Explain only.

This is not a coding session. No code blocks — not even to illustrate format or behavior. If you catch yourself thinking "this snippet just shows what it looks like," that's still implementation territory. Explain in prose.

Question

<question>$ARGUMENTS</question>

© avibebuilder, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/ask of avibebuilder/claude-prime.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 80bcfa4

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in avibebuilder/claude-prime, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Ask

What does Ask do?

Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation. Ask is an agent skill from avibebuilder/claude-prime. Answer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation.

When should I use Ask?

Ask fits situations like: questions asking why; what does this do; what is the purpose of; whats the difference.

How do I install Ask in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add avibebuilder/claude-prime --skill ask -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ask in avibebuilder/claude-prime) into .claude/skills/ask in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ask in Codex?

Run `npx skills add avibebuilder/claude-prime --skill ask -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ask in avibebuilder/claude-prime) into .agents/skills/ask in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ask in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add avibebuilder/claude-prime --skill ask -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ask, .gemini/skills/ask, .github/skills/ask and .opencode/skills/ask in your project.

What does Ask need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ask is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ask access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ask safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ask use?

Ask is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ask use?

About 395 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ask?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ask: Logseq Answer Machine (logseq/logseq, 45k stars), Visual Answer (BuilderIO/agent-native, 7.1k stars), Answer Me With HTML (QingYunA/answer-me-with-html, 2.1k stars) and Product Sense Interview Answer (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ask?

avibebuilder (a GitHub organization) maintains it in avibebuilder/claude-prime, which has 120 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 16, 2026.

Source: avibebuilder/claude-prime on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.