ask-claude

ask-claude is a lightweight bridge between the current OMX session and the Claude CLI. When you need a second opinion, a quick lookup, or want to run a parallel query without context pollution, ask-claude opens a fresh Claude CLI process, sends your question, and pipes the response back into the conversation.

Purpose

Some questions benefit from a clean context rather than one already loaded with implementation detail. ask-claude spawns an isolated Claude session so the sub-question is answered without the noise of the current working context. It is also useful for parallelising lookups — you can ask-claude and ask-gemini simultaneously and compare answers.

How to invoke

Direct invocation with a quoted argument:

codex
> $ask-claude "What is the recommended way to handle pagination — cursor vs offset?"

codex
> ask-claude "summarize the differences between JWT and session-based auth in two paragraphs"

What it does

• Opens a fresh Claude CLI process with no inherited context
• Sends the quoted question or task as the sole input
• Returns the response inline in the current OMX session
• Closes the subprocess cleanly after the response is received
• Can be run in parallel with $ask-gemini for multi-model comparison

Outputs

• The Claude CLI response, printed inline in the current session
• No side effects on the current session context

Related

• $ask-gemini — same bridge pattern targeting the Gemini CLI
• $ccg — tri-model fan-out: Claude, Codex, and Gemini answer simultaneously
• $external-context — parallel document-specialist agents for web and doc lookups