Ask

This is an OMH ask workflow skill, projected for Agent Skills hosts (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, OpenClaw, pi).

Why This Exists

ask exists to keep review work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is casual chat, a status-only acknowledgement, or another workflow has stronger routing evidence.
• The user needs implementation, review, CI, merge, or external publishing evidence that has not been delegated or observed.
• The user wants typed yes/no, pick-one, or scored probabilities from Jev over supplied text; use jev-ask.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: ask: ask Claude as an external advisor to critique this plugin bridge plan before implementation.
• Expected behavior: Prepare an advisor prompt, capture the response boundary, and summarize reusable critique.
• Why: The user wants outside review before committing to a direction.

Bad example:

• Prompt: ask: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
• Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing ask.
• Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.

Completion Checklist

• Findings or no-issue results are grounded in concrete file, artifact, command, or source evidence.
• Open questions, residual risk, and missing verification are named.
• Fixes or follow-up work are separate handoffs unless the user explicitly asked to implement them.

Recovery Notes

• If the reviewed target is missing, inspect the requested artifact or ask one target question.
• If independent verification is unavailable, report the gap and avoid an approval-style claim.

Use When

Use only when an external advisor is configured and would materially improve the answer.

Strong routing signals: `ask`, `$ask`, `external advisor`, `ask claude`, `ask gemini`, `consult claude`, `consult gemini`, `opinion from claude`, `opinion from gemini`, `second opinion`, `claude 의견`, `gemini 의견`

Catalog Metadata

Category: review Phase: external-advice Quality tier: evidence-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Name the workflow target, constraints, validation evidence, and stop condition.
• Separate Hermes guidance from executor or wrapper behavior unless evidence proves the step happened.

Required inputs:

• question
• context summary
• why external advice helps

Expected outputs:

• advisor summary
• accepted/rejected advice
• decision note

Artifact expectations:

• advisor transcript reference only when explicitly captured

Safety rules:

• Use only when configured and materially useful.
• Treat advisor output as evidence to evaluate, not authority.
• Do not send secrets or private prompts without explicit opt-in.

Runtime Evidence

Use the current host's own tools and subagent/task mechanism when available; otherwise run the same lanes sequentially or name the unavailable capability. A prepared plan, handoff, checklist, or skill installation is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence. Record actual tool results, or not_observed / not_available, in the record; never invent dispatch or host accounting. Treat supplied context as advisory, not proof of hidden memory reads or writes. State scope, constraints, verification, and the stop condition before work. Reply in the user's own words and the host's own voice: OMH's record terms (surface, lane, wrapper, handoff, evidence boundary, not_observed) stay in records and tool calls, never in the sentence the user reads unless they ask about one; and when a stop condition or a decision the user owns ends the turn, offer the next action as a question rather than declaring what will not be done. Supporting paths are relative to this skill directory; sibling skill paths are relative to its parent. Resolve them from the host-provided skill base directory ({baseDir} on hosts that provide it), never a hardcoded install location. A named workflow not installed here is unavailable, not permission to emulate its host-specific capabilities. Verify through the real surface before done.