ask SKILL.md skillA
ask from mikeprasad/aria-knowledge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/ask@git:20260827.e9e0353Pins git:20260827.e9e0353 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikeprasad/aria-knowledge
- Path
plugin-claude-cowork/skills/ask/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260827.e9e0353, committed Aug 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,763 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Research a question, check existing knowledge first, draft a knowledge doc from the answer, and save directly to the appropriate category. Use when user says "/aria-cowork:ask", "ask about", "research and save", "I want to learn about", "what is the pattern for". Skips backlogs — the user reviews the answer in real-time before saving. (Cowork variant — namespaced-only.).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# /ask — Query-Driven Knowledge Creation Research a question, check if the answer already exists in the knowledge base, and if not, draft a knowledge doc that saves directly to promoted files after user review. Fast path from question to knowledge — no backlog intermediary. ## Runtime Gate (per ADR-094) **Canonical resolution:** This is the Claude Cowork variant — namespaced-only. When both `plugin-claude-code` and `plugin-claude-cowork` are loaded in the same session (most common in Claude Desktop), bare `/ask` resolves to aria-knowledge's variant — Code is the canonical owner of all 24 dual-port skills per ADR-094 §Part 1. To reach this skill, use the namespaced form: `/aria-cowork:ask`. Do NOT match bare `/ask` — that belongs to aria-knowledge. **Before Step 0 — runtime self-correction.** Check whether the `Bash` tool is available in this session. If `Bash` IS available (you are running in Claude Code or another runtime with shell access), this invocation reached the wrong variant for the runtime. **Do not ask — redirect.** Announce it in one line, then use the `Skill` tool to invoke `ask` with the same arguments the user provided, and do not run this skill's steps: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/ask@sha256:b0ab68d5fd20af12The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.e9e0353, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wimzcuqq6rxcthcd)
5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 24, 2026 and Aug 27, 2026, about one every 32 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260827.e9e0353 latest | 2026-08-27 | e9e0353 | 7,763 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260524.014d621 | 2026-05-24 | 014d621 | 8,269 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260524.8b44350 | 2026-05-24 | 8b44350 | 8,325 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260524.67ab4e6 | 2026-05-24 | 67ab4e6 | 6,845 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7763 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mikeprasad/aria-knowledge · 18 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wimzcuqq6rxcthcd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikeprasad/aria-knowledge/ask GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b0ab68d5fd20af129ea911b2d2a20b5255053c6aa6dc18908fb0facda3ae1e68
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
More from mikeprasad/aria-knowledge
Every file in mikeprasad/aria-knowledge