Ask Gina

askgina/plugins

What this is: the Apache-2.0 workspace for the Ask Gina programmatic client (a TypeScript SDK and a Bun CLI), the listed plugin (a portable core plus host adapters), the evals that check whether models use that plugin correctly, and the public evals app. It does not log you in: SDK and CLI callers bring their own token (see below).

Production Gina MCP is at https://askgina.ai/ai/gina/mcp. SDK and CLI callers supply an externally acquired Gina bearer token with tools:read; neither client implements login or OAuth authentication. See authentication and Agent Setup to obtain a read-only token.

New here? Start with Start here, which routes you by goal. The Reference below it is for people changing the build, the evals app, or the lint setup.

Start here

Pick your goal

I want to...	Go to
Call Gina from TypeScript code	packages/sdk/README.md
Call Gina from a terminal	packages/cli/README.md
Use the shared catalog and protocol types	packages/contracts/README.md
Install the plugin in a host (Cursor, Grok Bot, Devin, and others)	plugins/ask-gina/README.md
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, or another client	Public Connect guides
Run or change the evals	packages/evals/README.md. Start with replay: it makes no network calls and needs no secrets.
Work on the public evals app	Public evals app in Reference
Contribute a change	ai_docs/contributing.md, then the loop below
Edit the public docs site	docs/ is the Mintlify source; authoring rules are in ai_docs/docs/authoring.md

Contributor loop

You need Bun 1.4.x (the root packageManager is bun@1.4.0). From the repository root:

bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run fmt:check
bun run lint
bun run check
bun run test
bun run check:target-conformance
bun run artifacts
bun run verify:artifacts
bun run check:public-boundary

This is the list ai_docs/contributing.md asks you to run before proposing a change. Pull-request CI runs these and a few more gates (see What CI runs in Reference). main has no protected required checks, so CI does not gate merge or publish packages.

Things that surprise people:

• Edit skills in one place. Canonical skill source lives only under plugins/ask-gina/skills/. Host skill trees are generated at pack time and must not be committed.
• bun run check is more than lint. It also runs evals:check-public, evals:check-grading, the TypeScript compiler, and the TypeScript import check.
• Docs changes have their own checks. If you touch docs/ or tools/docs/, also run bun run docs:test and bun run docs:check. Releasing a user-facing feature adds the steps in ai_docs/release-docs-checklist.md.
• Fix Effect diagnostics at the source. Don't suppress them or add baselines. The one exception is nodeBuiltinImport on the two synchronous SHA-256 helpers (packages/contracts/src/sha256.ts and packages/evals/src/canonical-json.ts): Effect Crypto is asynchronous, and schema filters and streamed file hashes need a synchronous digest. Import sha256Hex from those helpers instead of node:crypto.

Map of the repository

Path	What lives there
packages/contracts	@askgina/contracts: public catalog, protocol literals, receipt schemas.
packages/sdk	@askgina/sdk: TypeScript client.
packages/cli	@askgina/cli: the compiled ask-gina Bun binary.
packages/evals	@askgina/evals: replay, live runners, grading, sanitization, public export.
plugins/ask-gina	@askgina/plugin-core: canonical plugin inputs (manifest, skills, eval cases, targets) and the Devin install notes.
apps/evals	The public evals React/Vite app and its Storybook. Not an npm-published package.
tools/	Build, pack, verify, and boundary-check scripts; eval regrade and public-artifact checks; docs check.
docs/	Public Mintlify docs source.
ai_docs/	Internal engineering docs: contributing, architecture, security, eval handoffs, docs authoring.
patches/	Dependency patches, including the two Storybook docgen compatibility patches.
scripts/	Helper that applies the Effect TSGo patch.
specs/	Design plans.

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Reference

Packages and runtimes

• @askgina/contracts: public catalog, protocol literals, and receipt schemas; root-only ESM for Node >=24 and Bun >=1.4
• @askgina/sdk: TypeScript client; root-only ESM for Node >=24 and Bun >=1.4
• @askgina/cli: compiled Bun ask-gina binary; Bun 1.4.x only
• @askgina/plugin-core: host-specific plugin core and loaders, in plugins/ask-gina
• @askgina/evals: compiled hermetic/live eval tools, shared contracts, adapters, replay, grading, and sanitization; Bun 1.4.x only

The contracts and SDK packages have no CommonJS, browser, edge, or subpath entrypoints.

Commands

Root scripts from package.json, grouped by purpose:

# Setup and quality
bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run audit
bun run fmt:check
bun run lint
bun run check                 # quality: evals:check-public, evals:check-grading, vp check, tsc, check:typescript-imports
bun run typecheck
bun run test
bun run check:typescript-imports
bun run check:target-conformance
bun run effect-tsgo:diagnostics

# Packaging and verification
bun run build
bun run artifacts
bun run verify:artifacts
bun run verify:packages
bun run verify:targets
bun run smoke:install
bun run check:public-boundary
bun run check:marketplace:codex

# Public evals app
bun run evals:dev            # Vite dev server (default port 5173)
bun run evals:build
bun run evals:typecheck
bun run evals:check-public
bun run evals:check-grading
bun run storybook            # Storybook on port 6006
bun run build-storybook

# Evals
bun run eval:replay
bun run eval:responses
bun run eval:codex
bun run eval:openrouter
bun run eval:claude
bun run eval:omp
bun run eval:export-public

# Docs
bun run docs:check
bun run docs:test

What CI runs

Pull-request CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs, in order:

bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run audit
bun run fmt:check
bun run lint
bun run check
bun run evals:typecheck
bun run evals:build
bun run build-storybook
bun run test
bun run check:target-conformance
bun run artifacts
bun run verify:artifacts
bun run smoke:install
bun run check:public-boundary

It then smokes the Codex marketplace with a pinned Codex CLI at the published revision. The docs workflow (.github/workflows/docs.yml) runs on pull requests that touch docs/, tools/docs/, the plugin skills or .mcp.json, or the contracts entry point: it runs the docs check, skills catalog and sweep comparison tests (bun run docs:test) and node tools/docs/check.mjs --external.

Public evals app

apps/evals is the public React/Vite app (not an npm-published package) with the Ask Gina landing-page typography, watercolor artwork, UI components, and Storybook. It has a leaderboard, model profiles, task evidence explorer, and methodology page. Measured September reports coexist with explicitly illustrative fixtures. Measured rows cover tool conformance, not final-answer correctness; public downloads are reviewed projections, not full conversation archives. The viewer makes no live tool or wallet calls.

CI also runs evals:build and build-storybook. Their outputs stay in apps/evals/dist/app and apps/evals/dist/storybook, separate from published package artifacts. Storybook uses the existing TypeScript 7 toolchain plus a TypeScript 5 compiler-API alias and the two docgen compatibility patches under patches/. Local fonts and artwork are pinned in tools/public-source-assets.ts.

Before bundling, the public-artifact gate checks historical Claude reports against strict projection fields and an exact reviewed path/hash allowlist. Changed or new Claude JSON requires privacy review and corresponding provenance/allowlist updates; never update a hash merely to admit raw provider output. Full conversations remain outside the public repository. Sanitizing current files does not remove historical Git objects, fork-network copies, or previous deployment/cache contents.

Lint configuration

@shadcn/lint is registered in the root vite.config.ts. apps/evals/src enables shadcn/no-raw-colors, shadcn/no-arbitrary-values with allow: ["layout"], shadcn/no-restyle with allow: ["layout"] plus named evals CSS hooks on primitives, and shadcn/require-static-classes. apps/evals/src/components/ui turns no-arbitrary-values, no-restyle, and require-static-classes off so primitives can keep structural values and internal variants. bun run lint checks the whole workspace, and bun run check includes lint. Add further rules under lint.rules, spreading effectTsgoRecommended.rules first, or in app-scoped lint.overrides. See the available rules and configuration examples.

Artifacts

bun run artifacts builds the five package outputs with vp pack; the custom packer then creates five package tarballs, six complete host archives, one four-skill candidate archive, and contract, package, target, and eval receipts under ignored dist/. bun run verify:artifacts performs clean tarball installs and runtime checks. Nothing here publishes, releases, deploys, submits, or calls production during pull-request CI.

Eval runners

Live eval runners are bun run eval:responses, eval:codex, eval:openrouter, eval:claude, and eval:omp; hermetic replay is eval:replay. Credentials, flags, what each runner can and cannot prove, capture, and publication rules are in packages/evals/README.md.

One detail the evals README does not name: OpenRouter's --server-url accepts exactly https://askgina.ai/ai/gina/mcp (the default) or https://alpha.askgina.ai/ai/gina/mcp. Any other URL, trailing slashes, and venue MCP endpoints are rejected. OMP native mode's synthetic stored-credential smoke is not a real OAuth or subscription authentication test.