Ask Colleague

Ask colleague — a *different* backend/model than you (e.g. a local vLLM Qwen) — to take a scoped repo task off your plate, then fold its answer back. The point isn't a stronger model; it's a second, independent mind, and that diversity is the value: `ask-colleague review` gets a candid second opinion on a diff, `ask-colleague explore` gets a fresh read of an area, `ask-colleague write` hands off a small implementation, `ask-colleague feedback` grades a finished work item (the ROI loop), and `ask-colleague clean` reaps stale/corrupt `colleague/*` branches a crashed run left behind (which can break `git fetch`). Reach for it REFLEXIVELY, the way you'd lean over to the teammate at the next desk — not only when asked: before you present or open a PR on a non-trivial committed diff, run `review` for a diverse second opinion; for a fresh read of an unfamiliar area whose answer is independent of your current context, run `explore`. Both are read-only — isolated in a throwaway git worktree, zero side effects to your tree/branch — so the reflex is always safe; the side-effecting `write --apply` / `write --pr` still needs the user's go-ahead. Triggers when the user says "ask colleague", "ask a colleague to review/explore/write this", "have colleague take a look", "get a second opinion", "ask the other model", "rate that work item", "clean up a crashed colleague run" — and still on the legacy "outsource this". Colleague's output is a second opinion to verify and own, never authority.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ask-colleague
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-colleague/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/ask-colleague/SKILL.md

@misc{ask-colleague-2026,
  author    = {agentculture},
  title     = {Ask Colleague [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/ask-colleague/}
}