Agent skill

Ask

Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search.

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Ask

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit 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/kv0906/pm-kit.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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .claude/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit ask --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .agents/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .agents/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit ask --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .cursor/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .cursor/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git --path .claude/skills/ask

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit ask --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .gemini/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .gemini/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit ask

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .github/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .github/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install kv0906/pm-kit ask --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/ask .opencode/skills/ask && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "ask" agent skill from https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/ask into .opencode/skills/ask/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: ask
GitHub stars: 138
Token cost: ~781 tokens
SKILL.md length: 275 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 26
Repo updated: Jun 29, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search.

Works in 3 steps: Detect Search Backend → Parse Question → Return Answer
/ask what did we decide about auth?
SKILL.md covers Context, Input, Processing Steps and Output Format
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ask is an agent skill from kv0906/pm-kit. Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search. Uses QMD hybrid search when available, falls back to vault grep. Use for "/ask what did we decide about auth?" or "/ask who's blocked?".

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Retrieval-augmented generation. The repository describes itself as: AI-augmented PM workspace for Coding Agents — daily standups, decisions, blockers, docs, and sprint reviews as markdown skills. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

/ask what did we decide about auth?
/ask whos blocked?

Example prompts

“/ask what did we decide about auth?”
“/ask who”
“/ask”

Requirements

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

Detect Search Backend
Parse Question
Return Answer

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2cb5d9f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
- Read
- Glob
- Grep
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
- github.com
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 781 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 275 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~781

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 kv0906/pm-kit at commit 2cb5d9f, republished under its MIT licence (© kv0906). 275 words, ~781 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ask/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: ask
description: Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search. Uses QMD hybrid search when available, falls back to vault grep. Use for "/ask what did we decide about auth?" or "/ask who's blocked?".
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep
user-invocable: true

/ask — Question Answering

Fast answers from your vault. Uses QMD hybrid search (BM25 + vector + rerank) when available, with automatic fallback to vault grep.

Context

Config: @_core/config.yaml

Input

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Processing Steps

Step 1: Detect Search Backend

Check if QMD MCP tools are available in the current session:

Try qmd_status (MCP tool) to check QMD availability and index state.
Evaluate result:
- QMD available AND has embedded docs → use QMD mode
- QMD available but 0 embedded docs → use Fallback mode + hint
- QMD not available (tool missing/error) → use Fallback mode

Step 2: Parse Question

Detect project if mentioned
Identify question type:
- "what did we decide about X" → decisions
- "who's blocked" → blockers
- "find doc for X" → docs
- "status of X" → index

Step 3A: QMD Mode (preferred)

When QMD is available and indexed:

Deep search: Call qmd_deep_search with the user's question.
- Use collection filter from config: _core/config.yaml → qmd.collection_name (default: pm-kit)
- Cap results: use qmd.max_results from config (default: 8)
Retrieve top docs: Call qmd_get or qmd_multi_get for the top-scored results.
- Apply minimum score threshold from config: qmd.min_score (default: 0.35)
Synthesize answer: Read the retrieved content and produce a grounded answer with source citations.

Step 3B: Fallback Mode (vault grep)

When QMD is not available or not indexed:

Search Strategy

Question Type Search Path
Decisions decisions/{project}/*.md
Blockers blockers/{project}/*.md
Docs docs/{project}/*.md, docs/general/*.md
Status 01-index/{project}.md
General All folders
Search Methods
- Filename match first (fastest — naming-as-API)
- Frontmatter field match
- Content grep (slower)

Question Type	Search Path
Decisions	`decisions/{project}/*.md`
Blockers	`blockers/{project}/*.md`
Docs	`docs/{project}/.md`, `docs/general/.md`
Status	`01-index/{project}.md`
General	All folders

Step 4: Return Answer

Output Format

With results

markdown

## Answer

{Direct answer — 1-3 sentences, grounded in source content}

### Sources
- `{file-path}` — {brief context why this source is relevant}
- `{file-path}` — {brief context}

### Search Mode
{QMD (deep) | Fallback (vault grep)}

No results

markdown

## No Results Found

Searched: {folders or QMD collection}
Query: "{query}"

**Suggestions**:
- Try broader terms
- Check spelling
- Run `qmd embed` if QMD is installed but not indexed

### Search Mode
{QMD (deep) | Fallback (vault grep)}

Fallback mode hint

When running in Fallback mode, append after the answer:

Tip: Install QMD for smarter search with semantic understanding. See handbook/QMD_INTEGRATION.md for setup.

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/ask of kv0906/pm-kit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2cb5d9f

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Questions about Ask

What does Ask do?

Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search. Ask is an agent skill from kv0906/pm-kit. Fast vault Q&A — quick lookups, decision history, blocker status, doc search.

When should I use Ask?

Ask fits situations like: /ask what did we decide about auth?; /ask whos blocked?.

How do I install Ask in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ask in kv0906/pm-kit) 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 kv0906/pm-kit --skill ask -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/ask in kv0906/pm-kit) 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 kv0906/pm-kit --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. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep.

Does Ask access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. 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 781 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k 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?

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Who maintains Ask?

kv0906 (a GitHub user) maintains it in kv0906/pm-kit, which has 138 GitHub stars. The repository holds 26 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 29, 2026.

Source: kv0906/pm-kit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Ask

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

/ask — Question Answering

Context

Input

Processing Steps

Step 1: Detect Search Backend

Step 2: Parse Question

Step 3A: QMD Mode (preferred)

Step 3B: Fallback Mode (vault grep)

Step 4: Return Answer

Output Format

With results

No results

Fallback mode hint

Files

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