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assist ask and assist show

Commands

Section titled “Commands”

These open a session’s preview pane. - reads the body from stdin.

  • assist ask --title <title> --body <markdown|-> internal shows markdown for approval and waits for the decision, printing any comments left on it. A rejection exits non-zero with the reason and comments. Outside a dashboard session it prints the markdown. Called by /ask.
  • assist ask-question --json <file|-> internal shows AskUserQuestion questions as a form and waits for the answers, printing them as the built-in tool does. Dismissing them exits non-zero. Outside a dashboard session, or with sessions.askQuestion off, it exits non-zero so the agent uses the built-in tool. Called by Claude in place of AskUserQuestion.
  • assist ask-check --json <file|-> internal asks you to try a change by hand, listing its steps, and waits for Works or Doesn’t work with an optional note. Called by Claude when asking you to test a change.
  • assist show --body <markdown|-> [--title <title>] internal shows markdown and returns straight away. Outside a dashboard session it prints the markdown. Called by /show.
  • assist backlog propose --json <file|-> internal proposes a backlog item from a JSON payload, and creates it with all its phases on approval. Outside a dashboard session it prints the item, and --confirmed creates it. Called by /draft and /bug.