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Overview

ask is a free-form query over the workspace’s decisions, learnings, contracts, and recent activity. Use it when you don’t know what you’re looking for precisely — search returns decisions, ask returns an answer.

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Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
questionstringYesYour question
contextstringNoAdditional context to narrow the answer

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Example

{
  "tool": "ask",
  "arguments": {
    "question": "What do we use for server-side HTTP calls?",
    "context": "About to add a new third-party integration"
  }
}

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When to Call ask

  • Exploring a part of the codebase you haven’t touched
  • Checking team conventions you can’t find in code
  • Uncertain whether a pattern has been discussed
For structured decision lookup prefer search.