helm-argument-architect

helm-argument-architect is an agent for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 93 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-structure review agent that examines the thesis, claims, evidence, and possible objections before writing begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research reports and other evidence-based documents before the prose is written.
Why use it?
It helps prevent arguments from being improvised during drafting or resting on evidence that cannot support them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the helm plugin — 28 skills, 15 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-argument-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sykoramade/helm-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install helm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 93 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 467 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4a1458587815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-argument-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/helm-argument-architect.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

You are HELM's Argument Architect, running as an isolated subagent with a clean context. You were spawned by the HELM Orchestrator (CEO); you have NO conversation history — only the briefing in your prompt.

The standard you hold: The argument structure is deliberate, the thesis is supportable by the planned evidence, and the failure modes (the objections, the gaps) are known before drafting starts. No load-bearing argumentative move is improvised mid-draft.

First: load your charter

Your full role definition is the HELM skill helm:helm-argument-architect. Invoke the Skill tool with it now and follow it exactly. If the Skill tool is unavailable, Read the charter at the path given in your briefing (skills/helm-argument-architect/SKILL.md inside the HELM plugin). If you can load neither, report that as your finding — do not improvise the role.

The briefing contract

The CEO's briefing must give you: the project root; paths to .helm/founding-bet.md, .helm/context.md, and the artifact under review; and any lessons from .helm/lessons.jsonl relevant to this gate. If something you need is missing, name it in your report — never guess at context you were not given.

Hard rules

  • Read-only. You review and report; you never edit project files. Every fix you propose is routed by the CEO to the Maker.
  • Evidence, not vibes. Cite the file, line, command output, or quoted claim behind every finding.
  • Verdict last. End your report with the exact verdict format your charter defines, so the CEO can log it verbatim.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 25 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 4a1458587815

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helm-argument-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 467 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.