Deep Research
nexu-io/nexu
深度调研方法论（8步法）：将模糊主题转化为高质量调研报告. An agent skill from nexu-io/nexu.
Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the…
Install Ask Team
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-team --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .claude/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .claude/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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 install https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-teamType 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.
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-team --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .agents/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .agents/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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.
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-team --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .cursor/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .cursor/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git --path skills/ask-team--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-team --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .gemini/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .gemini/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-teamInstalls 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).
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .github/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .github/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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.
$ npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install nickwinder/synthteam ask-team --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ask-team .opencode/skills/ask-team && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ask-team" agent skill from https://github.com/nickwinder/synthteam/tree/main/skills/ask-team into .opencode/skills/ask-team/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ask-team", 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-team- GitHub stars
- 103
- Token cost
- ~2.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 962 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 3
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the…
- Works in 6 steps: Announce → Assemble the panel and the briefing packet → Round 1: independent positions → …
- The user wants more than one perspective on a decision
- SKILL.md covers How "communication between…, Phase 0 — Announce, Phase 1 — Assemble the panel… and Phase 2 — Round 1: independent…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ask Team is an agent skill from nickwinder/synthteam. Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the panel converges on a synthesized conclusion. Use when the user wants more than one perspective on a decision, a cross-functional gut-check, a debate between viewpoints, or a comprehensive answer that surfaces where teammates would agree and disagree. Invoke when the user says "ask the team", "/ask-team ...", "what would…
Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `README.md`). Compatibility notes: Requires distilled persona docs at ~/.synthteam/personas/<slug.md (built by the distill-slack-persona skill). Spawns one general-purpose subagent per persona…
It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research. It works with React and Slack. The repository describes itself as: Consult distilled personas of colleagues — build them from Slack history, get one colleague's take, or convene a deliberating panel. A plugin for Claude Code and Codex.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants more than one perspective on a decision
- A cross-functional gut-check
- A debate between viewpoints
- A comprehensive answer that surfaces where teammates would agree and disagree
Example prompts
- “ask the team”
- “/ask-team ...”
- “what would the team think”
- “/ask-team”
Requirements
- Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires distilled persona docs at ~/.synthteam/personas/<slug>.md (built by the distill-slack-persona skill). Spawns one general-purpose subagent per persona per round — expect roughly 8–12 subagent runs per call.
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Announce
- Assemble the panel and the briefing packet
- Round 1: independent positions
- React rounds: iterate to convergence
- Neutral synthesis
- Output
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7d27255. 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.
Compatibility
Requires distilled persona docs at ~/.synthteam/personas/<slug>.md (built by the distill-slack-persona skill). Spawns one general-purpose subagent per persona per round — expect roughly 8–12 subagent runs per call.
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Context cost
Ask Team loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 181 tokens; SKILL.md has 962 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 962 words (~2,203 tokens).
“Convene a panel of distilled colleague personas, let each one research and form a position, have them react to each other across rounds, and synthesize a neutral conclusion. The value is not any single answer — it's the deliberation: where…”
- name
- ask-team
- compatibility
- Requires distilled persona docs at ~/.synthteam/personas/<slug>.md (built by the distill-slack-persona skill). Spawns one general-purpose subagent per persona per round — expect roughly 8–12 subagent runs per call.
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/ask-team of nickwinder/synthteam.
- SKILL.md
- README.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7d27255
Compare with similar skills
Ask Team next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ask Team this skillnickwinder/synthteam | 103 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Deep Researchnexu-io/nexu | 3.3k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| GitHub Deep Researchbytedance/deer-flow | 83k | 5 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Deep Research WorkflowTokenRhythm/opensquilla | 7.1k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| X Researchrohunvora/x-research-skill | 1.2k | 1 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Deep Researchsanjay3290/ai-skills | 431 | 10 repos | ~683 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 |
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What does Ask Team do?
Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the…. Ask Team is an agent skill from nickwinder/synthteam. Convene a simulated panel of colleague personas to deliberate a question together — each persona becomes its own research agent, they react to each other's positions over multiple rounds, and the panel converges on a synthesized conclusion.
When should I use Ask Team?
Ask Team fits situations like: the user wants more than one perspective on a decision; A cross-functional gut-check; A debate between viewpoints; A comprehensive answer that surfaces where teammates would agree and disagree.
How do I install Ask Team in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ask-team in nickwinder/synthteam) into .claude/skills/ask-team in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ask Team in Codex?
Run `npx skills add nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ask-team in nickwinder/synthteam) into .agents/skills/ask-team in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ask Team 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 nickwinder/synthteam --skill ask-team -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-team, .gemini/skills/ask-team, .github/skills/ask-team and .opencode/skills/ask-team in your project.
What does Ask Team need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ask Team is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires distilled persona docs at ~/.synthteam/personas/<slug>.md (built by the distill-slack-persona skill). Spawns one general-purpose subagent per persona per round — expect roughly 8–12 subagent runs per call..
Does Ask Team 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 Team 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 Team use?
No licence was found for Ask Team or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Ask Team use?
About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.8k 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 Team?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ask Team: Deep Research (nexu-io/nexu, 3.3k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 83k stars), Deep Research Workflow (TokenRhythm/opensquilla, 7.1k stars) and X Research (rohunvora/x-research-skill, 1.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Ask Team?
nickwinder (a GitHub user) maintains it in nickwinder/synthteam, which has 103 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 18, 2026.
Source: nickwinder/synthteam on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.