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Ask a locally installed external advisor CLI (Claude or Gemini) for focused questions, reviews, brainstorming, or second opinions, and capture a reusable artifact. Use when the user wants a Claude/Gemini second opinion, "ask claude", or "ask gemini".
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Run a regression-tests-first, smell-by-smell deslop/refactor workflow that preserves behavior and raises signal quality. Use when the user asks to "cleanup", "refactor", "deslop", or when follow-up code has duplicates, dead code, weak boundaries, or fallback-like slop.
Run read-only deep repository analysis and return a ranked synthesis with explicit confidence, concrete file references, and clear evidence-vs-inference boundaries. Use when a user says "analyze", "investigate", "why does", "what's causing", or needs grounded cross-file explanation before any changes are proposed.
Deprecated compatibility shim for Claude advisor requests. Use `ask` with the claude backend instead.
Deprecated compatibility shim for Gemini advisor requests. Use `ask` with the gemini backend instead.
Strict autonomous delivery loop that runs deep-interview, ralplan, ultragoal, code-review, and ultraqa in order with automatic re-planning when gates are not clean. Use on "autopilot", "autonomous", "build me", "create me", "make me", "full auto", "handle it all", or "I want a/an…".
Durable professor-critic research workflow bound to a tracked goal, with validation-gated completion. Use when a research mission needs ongoing goal-focused management plus professor/critic-style validation.
| name | ask |
| category | utility |
| status | active |
| description | Ask a locally installed external advisor CLI (Claude or Gemini) for focused questions, reviews, brainstorming, or second opinions, and capture a reusable artifact. Use when the user wants a Claude/Gemini second opinion, "ask claude", or "ask gemini". |
| agent_created | true |
| triggers | ["ask claude","ask gemini","ask an advisor","second opinion","external review"] |
Ported from oh-my-codex
ask. OMX runtime conventions ($macroinvocation,omxCLI,.omx/state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list,.workbuddy/memory).
Use a locally installed external advisor CLI for focused questions, reviews, brainstorming, or second opinions. This skill replaces the separate ask-claude and ask-gemini skills.
Invoke with a backend and a question or task, for example:
ask claude <question or task>
ask gemini <question or task>
claude when the user asks for Claude, Anthropic, or the previous ask-claude behavior.gemini when the user asks for Gemini or the previous ask-gemini behavior.Claude:
claude -p "{{ARGUMENTS}}"
Gemini:
gemini -p "{{ARGUMENTS}}"
If needed, adapt to the user's installed CLI variant while keeping local execution as the default path. Do not silently switch to an MCP or remote provider when the local binary is missing.
After local execution, save a markdown artifact under a project-relative path:
.omw/ask/ask-<backend>-<slug>-<timestamp>.md
Minimum artifact sections:
Task: {{ARGUMENTS}}