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name: ask-element
description: "Work skill. The architect wants an element of this node to check or find out something and you to bring the answer («попроси template проверить …», «узнай у auth …»), or wants you to start or close an element's agent yourself. Also when «агент элемента … сообщил, что закончил (надзор …)» wakes you after such a task."
---

# Ask an element and bring its answer

**Process: working** — nothing changes in git: the element answers as a job, you pass the answer on.

A hint, not a law: models of late 2026 work worse under rigid step-by-step instructions.

**Why this way.** The architect asked you, so they are not asked again in Telegram to turn agents on and off (owner, 2026-10-20:
«агент ядра мог управлять включением агентов элементов и их выключением»). Your lead is the node's permission: a task to an element
you lead starts its agent at once, and its «done» wakes you at once — both without a Telegram question. Every running agent holds
about 300 MB of the person's memory, so you turn off what you turned on.

1. Who: the id or address the architect named, or `npm run find -- <English words>`.
2. `npm run supervise -- <id> main --max 1` — you lead it for this one check.
3. `npm run task -- <id> "Task from the core's main agent: <the check, in the architect's words>. It is a check, not a build: save
   the result with npm run reply-core -- \"<result>\" and finish as usual."` It prints «its agent woke with the task» (you turned it
   on) or «pasted into its live session» (the architect is working with it — do not turn it off later). Tell the architect in one
   line that the element is asked and that the answer comes from you.
4. Its «done» wakes you (a new session) → `npm run state -- <id>`: «Report to you» is its answer, «Turned on by you» says whether you
   switched it on. No report — say so; never guess for it.
5. `npm run person` → a Telegram bot: send the report with the channel's reply tool to that chat_id; no bot: write it here. A few
   lines, the architect's language, the element named, nothing added.
6. «Turned on by you: yes» → `npm run close -- <id>`; then `npm run done -- --close`.