Monday, January 26, 2026

Solving the Enterprise Agent Dilemma: ASK 1.0 Redefines Agent Skills Distribution

 Still manually copy-pasting agent configurations? Still worried that downloaded Skills may contain backdoors or vulnerabilities?

ASK (Agent Skills Kit) 1.0 is officially released today—redefining how enterprises manage agent skills.




As AI Agents rapidly proliferate, tools like Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf are reshaping how we develop software. But have you encountered these pain points:

  • 🀯 Configuration fragmentation: Team members use different tools such as Claude and Cursor, each with incompatible configuration formats, making organization-wide distribution and governance extremely difficult.

  • πŸ•΅️ Scattered high-quality resources: Useful Skills are spread across countless GitHub repositories, driving up the cost of discovery, evaluation, and maintenance for enterprises.

  • 😨 Security and compliance risks: Community-provided Skills are rarely audited. Do they contain malicious code? Will they exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data such as API keys? Introducing them poses serious security risks.

  • 🐒 Restricted intranet environments: Many enterprises operate in air-gapped or tightly controlled networks, unable to access external resources, severely limiting agent capabilities.

Today, ASK 1.0 officially arrives—and all of these problems are solved.


What Is ASK?

ASK stands for Agent Skills Kit. You can think of it as the npm or brew of the AI agent ecosystem, and more importantly, as next-generation infrastructure for agent skill governance.

With a single command, ASK lets you install, manage, and upgrade powerful “Skills” for agents such as Claude, Cursor, and Codex—instantly and consistently.

# Install a planning Skill and a Word document Skill, automatically adapting to Claude and Cursor ask install openai/create-plan anthropics/docx --agent claude cursor Installing create-plan to claude, cursor... Successfully installed create-plan! Installing docx to claude, cursor... Successfully installed docx! Installation Summary: ✓ Succeeded: 2 (openai/create-plan, anthropics/docx) -> to: claude, cursor

πŸ”₯ The 1.0 “Game-Changer” Feature: Security Audit

In version 1.0, we introduce the most anticipated capability—ask check security scanning.

The more powerful an agent becomes, the greater the risk. No one wants a Skill downloaded from the internet to silently upload AWS credentials or spawn a reverse shell in the background.

ASK 1.0 ships with an enterprise-grade security scanning engine:

  1. πŸ” Secret detection: Uses entropy analysis and regex matching to accurately detect leaks of over 100 types of sensitive credentials, including AWS, Google, Slack, and more.

  2. πŸ’£ Dangerous command interception: Automatically scans for high-risk operations such as rm -rf, nc -e, chmod 777, and similar patterns.

  3. 🦠 Malware identification: Detects binary payloads disguised as text files, as well as obfuscated or suspicious code.

  4. πŸ“Š Professional reports: Generates HTML or Markdown audit reports for clear, auditable security and compliance reviews.

# Inspect a Skill before installing it ask check ./new-skill --report audit.html

πŸ›‘️ ASK’s promise: Your agents should be powerful—and secure.


✨ Why Choose ASK?

1. Blazing Fast ⚡

Written entirely in Go with zero runtime dependencies. Supports concurrent downloads and sparse checkout, enabling second-level installations with no wasted time.

2. Universal Compatibility πŸ€–

One tool for all agents. Automatically detects and configures:

  • Claude Desktop (.claude/)

  • Cursor (.cursor/)

  • OpenAI Codex (.codex/)

  • Windsurf / Trae / Goose

3. Offline-First πŸ”Œ

Specifically optimized for enterprise intranet and confidential environments.
ask install --offline prioritizes local caches—no internet required.

4. Team Consistency 🀝

Supports the ask.lock version-locking mechanism. Ensures that all team members and CI/CD pipelines use identical Skill versions, eliminating friction caused by environment drift.

5. Infinite Skills 🌊

Aggregates highly rated Skills from Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel, and the GitHub community by default.
Need something? Just run ask search.


πŸš€ Get Started Now

Install ASK

macOS / Linux (Homebrew):

brew tap yeasy/ask brew install ask

Go Install:

go install github.com/yeasy/ask

Your First ASK Workflow

# 1. Initialize a project ask init # 2. Search for Skills (e.g., PDF processing) ask search pdf # 3. Intuitive installation ask install docx ask install pdf-tool # 4. Security audit (New!) ask check ./new-skill --output audit_report.html

🌟 Join the Community

ASK is open source—and we welcome your support.

ASK 1.0 is more than a tool—it is the foundation for building powerful, enterprise-grade AI agents.
Download it and experience it today.

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