Ask

This is a Hermes-native ask workflow skill.

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.

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.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, buzz, agent-board, gateway-intent-card, +34 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

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

Strong routing signals: ask, $ask, external advisor, claude, gemini, 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 Hermes role: reviewer 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.

Handoff policy:

Use as optional advice gathering; evaluate the advice in Hermes and delegate coding changes separately.

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

Preferred harness for this skill: critic.

sh
omh runtime record --skill ask --harness critic --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• When wrapper metadata includes memory_review_card/v1 or handoff_context_pack/v1, treat it as reviewed OMH-local or wrapper-supplied context only. Use conflict-free context summaries to shape plans and handoffs, but do not claim Hermes internal memory was read or changed.

Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.