---
title: "tool si.ask.local"
description: "a question in one of the ask tools' owning types, over the files the app may read: the card, answered by the app's own engine over its tenant's files, with the same foot."
section: reference
address: /reference/tools/si-ask-local
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# tool si.ask.local

a question in one of the ask tools' owning types, over the files the app may read: the card, answered by the app's own engine over its tenant's files, with the same foot.

[figure: Over MCP, si.ask.local takes LocalInput and returns a card whose body is Card.]

the card, answered by the app's own engine over its tenant's files, with the same foot. The call needs the ask grant at the strategy rung.



| | |
|---|---|
| input | [LocalInput](/concepts/localinput) |
| result | a card whose body is [Card](/concepts/card) |
| read-only | yes |
| destructive | no |
| card address | `ui://scale-intelligence/cards/Card` |
| HTTP route | [`/v1/ask/local`](/reference/ask/local) |





| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `tool` | `text` | yes | an ask tool |
| `input` | `json` | yes | the serialisation of that tool's input |