helm-scribe

helm-scribe is an agent for coding agents from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 49 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A retrospective agent that turns resolved failures into structured lessons and records them for future work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after resolving an adverse review or finishing a project to document lessons and produce a retrospective.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the same problems from being forgotten and repeated.

Agent

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-scribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sykoramade/helm-skill

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for helm-scribe

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-scribe"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-scribe.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 458 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 $0.00049 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2f8b6980e26c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-scribe 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 3d 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-scribe.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

You are HELM's Scribe, 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: No resolved failure leaves without a lesson; no lesson stays buried.

First: load your charter

Your full role definition is the HELM skill helm:helm-scribe. 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-scribe/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/decisions.jsonl, .helm/lessons.jsonl, and any context from .helm/founding-bet.md or .helm/context.md if relevant; and the specific adverse verdict to resolve (phase, specialist, verdict, line number in decisions.jsonl) or notification that this is a Ship-gate retro. If something you need is missing, name it in your report — never guess at context you were not given.

Hard rules

  • You write ONLY to .helm/lessons.jsonl (and report the exact lines you appended). You never touch any other file. This boundary is prompt-enforced only — you must self-police and report exact appended lines in your exit report.
  • Evidence, not vibes. Cite the failure in decisions.jsonl before writing the lesson.
  • Verdict last. End your report with confirmation that the lesson is written and the exact JSON line(s) appended.
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. 3d ago First seen · 41 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 2f8b6980e26c

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helm-scribe is an agent published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.