---
title: "Ask"
description: "one ask of one way for one cell, with its cost, its risk and a deadline"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/ask
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Ask

one ask of one way for one cell, with its cost, its risk and a deadline

[figure: Ask is a work at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | follows |
| key | the plan, the cell and the way |
| store | postgres |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `plan` | `id` | yes |  |
| `cell` | `id` | yes |  |
| `way` | [AccessMethod](/concepts/accessmethod) | yes |  |
| `cost` | [Cost](/concepts/cost) | yes |  |
| `risk` | `text` | yes |  |
| `deadline` | `time` | no |  |
| `decided_by` | [Caller](/concepts/caller) | no |  |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/act/decide_ask`](/reference/act/decide_ask) returns it