Ask and Fusion

nito ask and nito fusion do the same work as the in-chat ask and fusion commands, but from your shell. They print an answer and exit, which makes them easy to pipe, script, or drop into a keyboard shortcut.

Ask

nito ask [prompt] [flags]

A single question to a single Nito-supported model. The answer prints to standard output.

# Basic question
nito ask "Summarize what a Merkle proof guarantees."

# Pick a specific model
nito ask --model qwen/qwen3-coder "Write fizzbuzz in Python."

# Attach a document and ask about it
nito ask --file ./report.pdf "Summarize the top three risks."

# Skip web search for a self-contained prompt
nito ask --web-search off "What is 7 times 6?"

Options

Flag	Default	Effect
`--model <id>`	your saved default	Choose the Nito-supported model for this call.
`--file <path>`	none	Attach a local image or document. Repeatable.
`--web-search off\|auto\|on`	`on`	Hosted web search mode.
`--web-fetch <on\|off>`	`on`	Allow hosted fetch of URLs you name.
`--max-tokens <n>`	`2048`	Cap the output length.
`--stdin`	off	Read the prompt from standard input instead of an argument.
`--json`	off	Print a structured JSON response instead of plain text.
`--timeout <duration>`	`2m`	Request timeout.

Piping Input

With --stdin, the whole prompt comes from whatever you pipe in. You cannot also pass a prompt argument, so put your question into the piped text:

{ echo "What is the root cause of this error?"; cat error.log; } | nito ask --stdin

Structured Output

--json prints a machine-readable object instead of prose, which is what you want in a script:

nito ask --json "Return three tags for this repo." | jq .

Fusion

nito fusion [--model <id> --model <id>] [prompt] [flags]

One prompt, two or three models, plus a synthesis. This is the client-side form of Fusion: your machine fans the prompt out and a judge model reconciles the answers.

# Two or three models, one reconciled answer
nito fusion --model qwen/qwen3-coder --model z-ai/glm-5.2 "Is this contract vulnerable to reentrancy?"

# Choose which model writes the synthesis
nito fusion --model qwen/qwen3-coder --model z-ai/glm-5.2 --judge z-ai/glm-5.2 "Stateless JWTs or server sessions?"

Options

Flag	Default	Effect
`--model <id>`	(required)	A participant model. Repeat two or three times.
`--judge <id>`	first model	The model that writes the synthesis.
`--file <path>`	none	Attach a local file to every participant. Repeatable.
`--web-search off\|auto\|on`	`on`	Hosted web search mode.
`--web-fetch <on\|off>`	`on`	Allow hosted fetch of URLs you name.
`--stdin`	off	Read the prompt from standard input.
`--json`	off	Print structured JSON.
`--timeout <duration>`	`5m`	Overall Fusion timeout.

Fusion needs a paid plan. It also mixes privacy levels by the rules on the Fusion page: the synthesis lands at the least-private level among the participants, so a single Anonymous model pulls the whole run to Anonymous.

Choosing a Model

Both commands accept --model. Without it, ask uses your saved default; Fusion always needs its participants named explicitly. To see what is available to your account:

nito agent models

See Choosing a Model for how the saved default works.

Scripting and Automation

Output modes, exit codes, and piping for pipelines.

Multi Model Answer Checker

A full recipe: cross-check an answer against independent models with Fusion.

Basics

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Ask

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Choosing a Model

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Multi Model Answer Checker

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