ase-help-intent
SkillDev toolsMatch a free-text intent against the accumulated help of all ASE skills, generate all adequately fitting `/ase:ase-xxx-xxx` commands -- ranked best-fitting first, each with concrete options and arguments -- and let the user execute one of them, refine the intent, or cancel. Use when the user knows what they want but not which skill or flags realize it, or mentions "intent" or requests "help".
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the ase-help-intent skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by rse/ase in plugin/skills/ase-help-intent/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
$ARGUMENTS
The following is the accumulated help of all ASE skills --
the concatenation of every skill's help.md file -- and is the sole
catalog you match against:
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REPEAT the following sub-steps in a LOOP until the user either executes one of the generated commands or cancels the dialog in sub-step 4:
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Match Intent:
Match the current against the and select every skill that adequately fits it -- judging the fit primarily by each skill's
## SCENARIOS("You want ...") and## DESCRIPTIONsections. Order the selected skills from best-fitting to worst-fitting and keep at most the 8 best ones, so the dispatch dialog of sub-step 4 stays addressable. Set to the number of kept skills. Then, for each kept skill (numbered1to in rank order), from that skill's## SYNOPSIS,## OPTIONS, and## ARGUMENTSsections in , generate a concrete command that realizes :- Set <name/> to the skill's name (e.g.
ase-code-lint). - Set <arguments/> to the concrete option flags and
positional arguments -- derived from the skill's
## OPTIONSand## ARGUMENTS-- that best realize (may be empty). - Set <command>/ase:<name/> <arguments/></command> (the full command line, with surplus inner spaces collapsed).
- Set <rationale/> to a very brief, single-sentence justification of why this skill and its options match .
Finally set yes.
- Set <name/> to the skill's name (e.g.
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Guard No Match:
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Render Commands:
Output the generated commands, in rank order, with the following , where the
[...]marks the repetition of the command/rationale line pair for each kept skill from1to :C ❯
<command<n/>/>▷ <rationale/>[...]
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Dispatch Command:
In the following, you MUST NOT use your built-in tool! Instead, you MUST just show a custom dialog according to the expanded
custom-dialogdefinition. You MUST closely follow this definition.Let the user decide how to proceed by raising a question with the following custom dialog (invoked with
--other, so that any free-text instruction is accepted as an intent refinement). Which dialog is raised depends on , so that theC<n/>command options are offered only when commands were actually generated in sub-step 1 and rendered in sub-step 3:The
[...]line stands for one further answer lineC<n/>: Execute<command/>now.per additionally kept skill from2to , in rank order, so the dialog offers exactly command options plusCANCEL.Check the tool and dispatch accordingly:
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If is
CANCEL: Break out of the loop and stop processing without any further output. -
If is
REFINE, or matchesC<n/>while isno: do not execute anything -- output the following and continue the loop at sub-step 4 to obtain a refined intent via the dialog's free-text channel: -
If matches
C<n/>(which implies isyes): Break out of the loop, output the following , and then call the toolSkill(skill: "ase:<name<n/>/>", args: "<arguments<n/>/>")to execute the selected command: -
If matches
OTHER: <text/>: Set (fold the free-text instruction into the intent). Then you MUST continue the loop at sub-step 2.1 to re-match the refined intent.
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- Sep 2026
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ase-help-intent- Source
- github.com/rse/ase