Show HN: Claude Code AskUserQuestion which works for subagents/teams/workflows
Claude Code currently lacks support for AskUserQuestion in subagent sessions, which affects efficiency. An additional MCP can resolve this issue by allowing questions to be answered before proceeding. The new feature, `ask_human_question`, is designed to enhance subagent management through a SQLite DB and offers both CLI and web interfaces.
- ▪Claude Code does not support AskUserQuestion in spawned sessions.
- ▪An additional MCP can fix the efficiency issue.
- ▪The `ask_human_question` feature supports all question types and provides a CLI or web interface.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320233 |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 07:38:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T07:49:59.659Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T07:50:01.739Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | OZN8-kxwLMug · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Claude Code does not support AskUserQuestion in spawned sessions - subagents, agent teams, and workflows — which makes a swarm of agents less efficient in the original implementation. This can be easily fixed with an additional MCP.Built on a SQLite DB and MCP, blocking until the question is answered, supporting all possible question types, with a CLI or web interface for answers, `ask_human_question` fills the gap in efficient subagent management.Repo: https://github.com/sermakarevich/claude/tree/main/mcp/ask_hu...
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.