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qs-ask: answer via Claude Code on the subscription, not an API key

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No API key and no separate billing: qs-ask now shells out to `claude -p`,
which draws on the existing subscription already authenticated on this
host. The trade is latency — Claude Code boots a Node process per
question, ~6s measured against the raw API's ~1s — so the launcher now
races Wikipedia and Claude instead of chaining them. Wikipedia fills the
card in under a second and Claude supersedes it on arrival; chaining
would have left the card blank for six seconds on every question.

Isolation, verified: --safe-mode drops CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, plugins
and MCP while leaving auth working, which matters for correctness and not
just speed — the global CLAUDE.md here asks for caveman-mode replies and
that would have leaked into answers. --no-session-persistence writes no
transcript, and a dedicated empty cwd keeps launcher questions out of any
project's history or auto-memory. Confirmed no project namespace, no
transcript and no memory write after a run.

Not --bare, which looks right and is a trap: its auth is strictly
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, so it cannot use the subscription at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -1709,6 +1709,9 @@ in
property string answerSource: ""
property bool answerDropNext: false
property bool askDropNext: false
// Claude answered the current query, so the slower-arriving
// Wikipedia result must not overwrite it.
property bool askWon: false
property var answerCache: ({})
readonly property var answerStop: [
@ -1798,6 +1801,7 @@ in
answerTimer.stop();
killAnswer();
killAsk();
askWon = false;
answerFact = "";
answerLead = "";
answerTitle = "";
@ -1817,12 +1821,16 @@ in
showAnswer(hit);
return;
}
// Claude first — it answers the questions Wikipedia
// can't. Silence from it means "no key, unreachable, or
// doesn't know", and Wikipedia takes over.
// Both at once. Wikipedia fills the card in well under a
// second; Claude takes ~6s through Claude Code and
// supersedes it on arrival. Racing them beats chaining:
// Claude-then-fallback would leave the card blank for
// six seconds on every question.
askWon = false;
killAsk();
askProc.command = [Commands.askFetch, q];
askProc.running = true;
startWiki();
}
function startWiki() {
@ -1834,10 +1842,8 @@ in
function takeAsk(raw) {
if (askDropNext) { askDropNext = false; return; }
const text = raw.trim();
if (text === "") {
startWiki();
return;
}
// Nothing to add — whatever Wikipedia found stands.
if (text === "") return;
const res = {
title: "", // no article behind it
fact: text.slice(0, 400),
@ -1848,6 +1854,7 @@ in
cacheAnswer(res);
// Typing may have moved on while the call was out.
if (answerQuery !== answerKey(searchInput.text)) return;
askWon = true;
showAnswer(res);
}
@ -1972,6 +1979,9 @@ in
: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + encodeURIComponent(title.replace(/ /g, "_")),
source: "Wikipedia"
};
// Claude already answered this query — don't overwrite
// the better answer in the cache or on screen.
if (askWon) return;
cacheAnswer(res);
// Typing may have moved on while curl was out.
if (answerQuery !== answerKey(searchInput.text)) return;