Ask

by sd0xdev

Ask is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by sd0xdev in sd0x-dev-flow.

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Install Ask

Copy Ask into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/tree/main/skills/ask ~/.claude/skills/ask

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/ask/SKILL.md in sd0xdev/sd0x-dev-flow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ask
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Ask does

Ask provides context-aware Q&A with automatic context gathering for codebase, git history, rules, docs, and other skills during development. Use it for quick questions when you need a sourced answer, not for code changes or deep research.

Ask is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ask comes from a repository tagged agent-harness, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, codex and harness-engineering.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ask — Context-Aware Q&A

Trigger

Keywords: ask, quick question, context question, project question, 問一下, 想了解, 想知道

When NOT to Use

Scenario	Alternative
Code modification or implementation	`/feature-dev`
Code review or PR review	`/codex-review-fast`
Tech spec review	`/review-spec`
Document review	`/codex-review-doc`
Bug fixing	`/bug-fix`
Next step decision	`/next-step`
Deep multi-source research	`/deep-research`
Systematic code tracing	`/code-explore`

Procedure

Phase 0: Session Context Capture

Run these 4 commands in parallel to build session context:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Ask provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/feature-dev
/codex-review-fast
/review-spec
/codex-review-doc
/bug-fix
/next-step
/deep-research
/code-explore
/ask

Frequently asked about Ask

What else does sd0xdev publish alongside Ask?
Ask is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sd0xdev/sd0x-dev-flow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adr, Architecture Design and Best Practices Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ask does, and is maintained by sd0xdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sd0xdev/sd0x-dev-flow page.
How does Ask compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ask ranks #2961 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ask against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.