CodeAFAsk from home

Ask from home

Ask here answers a question from home without adding a conversation to your list.

Not every question deserves a conversation. Ask it where you are, read the answer, move on.
  • how many open TODOs are in this repo?
  • remind me at 6 to check the release notes
  • tell me when CI goes red

Typing on home usually starts a new conversation. One row above that choice is ask here, which runs the same agent in the same project with the same tools, but keeps the exchange off your conversation list. The answer appears in a pane on home, and once you have read it and moved on, its row goes away.

Try it in CodeAF

Where

On home (Space Space from any conversation).

Type
how many bullet points are in CHANGELOG.md?

Then press ↑ to reach ? ask here, and Enter.

You see

The ask here pane: your question, one line per tool call, the answer, and + continue as a conversation under it.

The life of an exchange

While it works, its row sits at the top of home with a live tail: working, waiting on you when a card needs an answer, then answered, or stood (it set up a reminder or watch). Tab or Esc hands the keyboard back to the list, and → on the row takes it back into the pane for a follow-up. Ask several things at once and each gets its own row.

An exchange is filed when it is over, you have seen the result, and the cursor has left its row. Nothing is thrown away: the transcript is kept, filed under the reminder or watch it created, or cleared after 7 days if nothing came of it. If the answer turns out to be the start of real work, continue as a conversation moves the whole exchange into a normal conversation in that project.

Errands, not just questions

Ask here is the natural place for reminders and watches. "Remind me at 6 to check the release notes" gets a card in the pane; press 1 to set it up, 0 to decline. When it fires, the reminder arrives in a conversation you have open in that project, or waits on home.

Things to build

  • A glance at the repo: "which tests are slowest?" or "what changed since yesterday?" without a new tab.
  • A watch in one line: "tell me when CI goes red on main", answered with 1. Watches
  • Tomorrow's first task: a reminder at 9 that names the branch you left half done.

Go further

Schedules: Routines and reminders that run on your clock, with each run doing real work in the project.

Coming soon: describe the org you want and CodeAF builds it: teams, managers, budgets, standing orders.