Consult

What a business rule is, what a team intended, whether a scenario could really happen: no check settles these. Consult brings them to a person and keeps the work going while the question is open.

In your session: `answer_task`

A long tool returns a task. When the work behind it needs you (the forge in run_repo_to_tasks asks for discovery, review, a repository question or guidance), the task’s status turns input_required and its inputRequests carry the questions.

get_task    {"task_id": "<task id>"}
answer_task {"task_id": "<task id>", "answers": {"q-…": "Round half to even; the ledger has always done so."}}

A client that speaks MCP Tasks puts the questions to you directly and answers with tasks/update. Any client can call answer_task. The session waits up to ten minutes for an answer, then withdraws the question and goes on without it. Every question and what came back is kept with the session at agent-sessions/<session id>/. The session’s debrief comes back in its result, not as a question.

Experts on Slack: `ask_human`

For teams that run an expert channel. Opens one question in a Slack thread and returns its id at once. A reply agent owns the thread to its close and banks each answer where the asking pass reads it.

ask_human {"kind": "question",
           "ask": "Does a refund issued after the cycle closes reopen the cycle?",
           "context": "The reference fix assumes it does not; two cases depend on it.",
           "repo": "acme/tasks", "task": "fix-rounding", "channel": "C0123"}

Argument	Meaning
`kind`	`question`, `review` or `discovery`
`ask`, `context`	The question (20 characters at least), and what was tried and why now (40 at least)
`questions`	Questions to post verbatim, each with the test assertion its answer decides
`repo`, `task`	Bank answers under `<task>/sme/` on the repository’s runs
`attachments`	Run directories packed into a redacted review bundle
`channel`	Never guessed

ask_human with questions: "open" opens one consult from a task’s open yes/no questions (<task>/sme/questions.json), skipping answered ones. list_consults lists yours, or reads one thread whole by consult_id. Only you read your consults.

Parked passes

When the model API turns a pass away, it parks with what it spent. list_parked shows yours; resume_parked respawns them once the API answers. A sweep does the same every fifteen minutes. The Slack tools and parked passes are on kennet:l3.

Getting started

The loop

Traces

Reference

In your session: `answer_task`

Experts on Slack: `ask_human`

Parked passes

​In your session: answer_task

​Experts on Slack: ask_human

​Parked passes

In your session: `answer_task`

Experts on Slack: `ask_human`

Parked passes