Ask

intellia ask answers a question about the Intellia platform and this CLI. It answers from what the CLI itself knows: its verified examples, its guides, the schemas of the files it reads, its own command list and, when your key can read it, your organization’s inventory.

intellia ask "how do I add a response rule to a webhook?"

Pass the question as one quoted argument.

What an answer holds

An answer has an explanation, numbered steps, the files the steps need, the commands to run, the commands that confirm the outcome, and the sources it was drawn from: an example, a guide, a schema, a command or the inventory.

Every command and file is checked before you see it

Before an answer is shown, the CLI checks it:

• Commands. Each intellia command in it is parsed against the CLI’s own command list, with its arguments and options. A command must be a single invocation, with no pipes, redirections or paths outside the current directory.
• Files. Each file goes through the validator that deploy, validate and modules check use for its kind. When no field in a YAML file names its kind, it is checked as an agent, as deploy would treat it, and notes says so.
• Sources. Each source must name something the answer was given.

When something fails, the model is asked once more with the exact errors. Whatever still fails is removed, and the answer says how many items it removed.

Each step carries a marker:

unconfirmed

unconfirmed lists what was removed. Each item gives:

• kind: step, command, check, file, answer (the explanation) or source;
• location: where the item was in the model’s original answer, before anything was removed. That is a step number (originalStep, counting from 1), a position in the original commands or checks, a file path, a file’s position, a source’s position, or a field name. A position never points into the steps, commands or other lists you get back, since the item is no longer in them. In a terminal it reads, for example, “step 3 of the original answer”;
• reasons: codes with counts, such as unknown_command, schema_error or no_source.

An item never repeats the removed text, so nothing in it is a command to paste. When a removed step came before steps that are still shown, notes says so: the later steps may depend on something the removed step would have created. When nothing in an answer can be confirmed, the command fails with the error code ask_unconfirmed.

It never runs code from the answer

The CLI does not execute anything the model wrote. TypeScript and JavaScript files get a syntax check only. A module in the answer is checked as a whole only when every file in it is YAML; otherwise each file is checked on its own, and notes says why. Answer files are checked in a temporary directory, never in your working directory.

Billing

Each answer is billed to the active organization, in the same way as intellia ai ask. A question uses up to two model calls: the answer and, when something fails its checks, one retry. notes says when the retry happened.

Output

In a terminal, the answer prints as readable text: the explanation, then the steps with their markers and commands you can copy, the files, the checks, the sources, what could not be confirmed, and any notes.

When the output is piped, or with --json, it prints one JSON object with the fields answer, steps, files, commands, checks, sources, unconfirmed, notes and model. A failure prints the CLI’s usual error object, with ok: false and error, plus code and fix for the errors the CLI explains (intellia explain <code>).

intellia ask "how do I add a response rule to a webhook?" --json

When the inventory is unavailable

Reading the inventory needs an org admin role. Without one, ask still answers, without your organization’s objects, and notes says the inventory was unavailable and why.