Ask

What it does

When your agent uses it

• : user has a quick question about codebase
• Skills during development

Example prompts

• “/ask”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Bash(git:*), Bash(node:*), Agent

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Session Context Capture
2. 2Intent Classification + Routing
3. 3Context Gathering
4. 4Sub-Agent Dispatch (Optional)
5. 5Answer Synthesis

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c9a2036. 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
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash(git:*)
  • Bash(node:*)
  • Agent

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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 2.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 830 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~90

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.2k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:138

  | Secret skip | Do not read `.env`, `credentials.*`, `*secret*` files |

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 sd0xdev/sd0x-harness at commit c9a2036, republished under its MIT licence (© sd0xdev). 830 words, ~2,093 tokens.

name

ask

description

Context-aware Q&A with auto context gathering. Use when: user has a quick question about codebase, git history, rules, docs, or skills during development. Not for: code changes (use feature-dev), code review (use codex-review-fast), deep research (use deep-research), full code trace (use code-explore). Output: structured answer with source attribution.

allowed-tools

Read, Grep, Glob, Bash(git:*), Bash(node:*), Agent

git add | git commit | git push | git pull | git reset | git stash
git rebase | git merge | git checkout -- | git restore | git clean

## Answer

{Direct, concise answer}

### Sources

| Type | Reference | Relevance |
|------|-----------|-----------|
| file | `path/file.js:42` | {why relevant} |
| commit | `abc1234 — message` | {why relevant} |
| command | `git log --oneline -5` | {result summary} |

### See Also

- `/code-explore` — for full trace
- {other relevant skill or doc}

Input: /ask resolve-feature-cli.js 怎麼偵測 feature？
Phase 0: branch=feat/ask, feature=ask
Phase 1: Intent=code (file path mentioned)
Phase 2: Grep "resolve-feature" → Read scripts/lib/feature-resolver.js → trace exports
Phase 4: Answer with Sources (file evidence)

Input: /ask 最近有什麼 commit？
Phase 0: branch=feat/ask
Phase 1: Intent=git ("最近", "commit")
Phase 2: git log --oneline -20
Phase 4: Answer with Sources (commit + command evidence)

Input: /ask auto-loop 的規則是什麼？有哪些 skill 會用到？
Phase 0: branch=feat/ask
Phase 1: Intent=multi (rules + skill)
Phase 2: Read rules/auto-loop.md + Grep "auto-loop" in skills/*/SKILL.md
Phase 4: Answer with Sources (file evidence from both rules and skills)

© sd0xdev, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/ask of sd0xdev/sd0x-harness.

• SKILL.md
• references/intent-patterns.md
• references/routing-table.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c9a2036