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ActiveCLI

Asking one question

When there is no conversation to have, there is no reason to manage one. ask opens a command, sends, collects the assistant’s text until the turn ends, and closes.

import { Claude } from 'activecli';


const answer = await Claude.ask('What does this repository do?', { workingDir: '/proj' });


answer.text;    // everything the assistant said, tool calls left out
answer.isOk();  // whether the turn finished normally
answer.result;  // the CLI's own result entry — cost, duration, anything else it reported

No permission mode of its own

Section titled “No permission mode of its own”

isOk() is separate from the promise resolving

Section titled “isOk() is separate from the promise resolving”

An interrupted turn also produces a result, so “there is a result” is not the same as “it went well” — which is why isOk() exists separately from the promise resolving.

Where to go next

Section titled “Where to go next”