consult

name	consult
description	Strategic guidance from the advisor model on a question, with optional focus area and depth. Use before consequential decisions or to review a plan.

Argument Parsing

Parse the user's input for:

• First positional argument → question
• --focus: one of general, architecture, security, performance, style
• --depth: one of quick, balanced, deep
• --file / -f: file path(s) to include as context

Attachment verification (Part 2.1 — fail-loud)

Before calling mori-consult_advisor, scan the question text for attachment references:

• Explicit (attached: <name>) patterns
• Instructions matching a read-the-source intent: "attached", "READ the", "read the actual", "source read", "vs pin", "primary source", "primary-source"

For each referenced file: verify it exists on disk. If any referenced file is absent, abort — do not call mori-consult_advisor — and report:

CONSULT ABORTED: attached file(s) missing from payload:
  - <path>  (referenced in question but not found on disk)
Fix: pass --file <path> or ensure the file exists before consulting.

After verifying (or if no attachment references), append a manifest line to the context:

ATTACHED FILES: <name1> (<bytes>B), <name2> (<bytes>B)

or ATTACHED FILES: none if no files were supplied.

Source-dependence classification (Part 2.2 — mode-integrity)

A consult is source-dependent if the question contains any attachment reference OR --file arguments were supplied.

Depth enforcement

If --file arguments were supplied, --depth MUST be deep. If the user passed quick or balanced (or omitted --depth), silently coerce to deep and prepend a one-line note to your response:

Note: depth coerced to deep — --file requires full analysis budget.

File content injection (client-side)

If --file arguments were supplied and all files passed verification:

For each path, use the CC Read tool to read the file content client-side. Build a list of objects for the file_contents parameter:

[{"name": "path/to/file.py", "content": "<file text>"}, ...]

Record each file's name and byte count (bytes = len(content)) for the ATTACHED FILES: manifest. Keep the manifest (and any other non-file background) in the context parameter — do not paste full file bodies into context.

Do NOT pass raw paths in files= — the MCP server runs on remote GCE; local filesystem paths are inaccessible there. Always pass files=[]; file bodies arrive via file_contents.

Execution (async submit + poll)

consult_advisor is non-blocking: it returns a job_id immediately. Deep consults can take up to ~300s of Bifrost inference (round-trip often 400–450s). Poll until done.

1. Run attachment verification. Abort loudly if any referenced file is missing.
2. Classify source-dependence.
3. Read each --file path client-side; build file_contents; append ATTACHED FILES: to context.
4. Call mori-consult_advisor with question, context, focus, depth, files=[], and file_contents=[...] (or omit / pass [] when no files).
5. Parse the JSON response: {"job_id": "...", "status": "pending"}.
6. Poll mori-consult_status with that job_id every 30–60 seconds (minimum 30s — even small-file consults commonly take ~2 minutes of Bifrost latency; polling faster just burns tool calls) until:
   • {"status": "done", "result": "<advice>"} → present result
   • {"status": "error", "error": "..."} → report the error loudly
   • Deadline (~10 minutes for deep; ~4 minutes for quick/balanced) → fail with timeout
7. Present the advice (or the failure).

On job not found: in-memory jobs are wiped on server restart/CD — resubmit; do not invent advice.

On error or empty response:

• Not source-dependent: retry once with --depth quick (new submit + poll).
• Source-dependent: do NOT fall back. Return:

CONSULT UNAVAILABLE (source-dependent; fallback would be source-blind).
Options: retry manually, postpone, or proceed without consultation (disclose this).

Empty deep-mode responses must surface as EMPTY_RESPONSE (elapsed: Xs) — not silent success.