ask

ask is a command-line tool for asking AI questions from a terminal without giving an agent control over the project. It runs an already installed and authenticated Codex, Claude Code, Pi, or OpenCode CLI in read-only mode in the current directory, prints answers to stdout, and sends prompts and errors to stderr. One-shot questions use `ask [QUESTION...]`; interactive sessions can be continued with `ask -c`, with turns, agent choices, model settings, reasoning settings, and the underlying agent session ID saved for later use in the folder. It can also reopen saved sessions, configure defaults, and upgrade itself. The installer supports Intel and ARM Macs and x86_64 and ARM64 Linux, and the project is licensed under MIT.