help

help is a command for coding agents from AI-Native-Systems/north-star-advisor. It costs 7 tokens per session (984 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help command for the North Star Advisor, a tool for creating strategy documents for software applications that use AI agents. It lists available commands, options, and usage examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see commands for strategic discovery, research, document generation, phase selection, and optional user-experience or architecture templates.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember command names, flags, and which command supports a particular planning or research task.

Command

Part of the northstar plugin — 6 commands, 3 agents 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 commands/ai-native-systems/north-star-advisor/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI-Native-Systems/north-star-advisor

Or install northstar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 984 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 $0.00007 $0.00984
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00492
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00098

Measured 4d ago against content hash fe588027d506, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

help 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 4d 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.

commands/help.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/northstar:help

Display available North Star Advisor commands and usage information.


Usage

/northstar:help

Output

Display the following help information:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 NORTH STAR ADVISOR
 Strategic Document Generation for Agentic Applications
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COMMANDS

  /northstar:advisor [flags]
    Begin strategic discovery through open exploration.
    Acts as your thinking partner to articulate what you're building.
    Flags:
      --ux      Include UX design templates (USER_JOURNEYS, UI_DESIGN_SYSTEM, ACCESSIBILITY, etc.)
      --deep    Include deep architecture templates (PIPELINE, RESILIENCE, OBSERVABILITY, etc.)
      --full    Include all 23 templates (equivalent to --ux --deep)

  /northstar:advisor-build [options]
    Research and generate strategic documents.
    Runs domain research, then generates documents.
    Options:
      --from <N>      Start from phase N
      --to <N>        Stop at phase N
      --only <N>      Regenerate only phase N
      Note: phase numbers come from templates/index.yml
      --ux            Add UX templates (can extend existing project)
      --deep          Add deep architecture templates
      --full          Add all templates (equivalent to --ux --deep)

  /northstar:status
    Show current progress (research, generation phases).

  /northstar:resume [options]
    Resume from the last checkpoint.
    Options:
      --restart       Restart current template from scratch
      --rollback      Go back to previous template

  /northstar:export [options]
    Package docs and ai-context.yml into a shareable zip.
    Options:
      --output <path>   Custom output path

  /northstar:help
    Show this help message.

WORKFLOW

  1. /northstar:advisor
     - Open exploration: "What are you building, and why?"
     - Follow-up questions until concrete understanding
     - Understanding checkpoint
     - Saves: discovery.md, inputs.yml, ai-context.yml

  2. /northstar:advisor-build
     - Research phase: 5 parallel agents (tech, features, arch, pitfalls, intelligence layer)
     - Research checkpoint
     - Generate strategic documents
     - Research informs phases 6, 7, 7d, 8

RESEARCH PHASE

  Before generation, 5 research agents run in parallel:
  - Tech Stack: Frameworks, libraries, best practices
  - Features & UX: Expected features, UX patterns
  - Architecture: Patterns, data flow, scalability
  - Pitfalls: Common mistakes, security concerns
  - Intelligence Layer: Embedding models, RAG patterns, model routing, evaluation

  Research is cached for 24 hours.

GENERATION PHASES (see templates/index.yml for authoritative list)

  Core templates (always generated):
    Phases 1-4:   Strategy & positioning
    Phases 6-13:  Architecture & implementation

  UX templates (--ux flag):
    Phase 5a-5d:  Design system, accessibility & wireframes

  Deep templates (--deep flag):
    Phase 7d:     Advanced architecture patterns

  Counts: 12 core + 4 ux + 7 deep = 23 total (+ ai-context.yml)

OUTPUT STRUCTURE

  north-star-advisor/
  ├── ai-context.yml       Strategic context for Claude Code
  ├── .work-in-progress/   Working state (hidden)
  │   ├── state.json       Generation progress
  │   ├── inputs.yml       User inputs
  │   ├── discovery.md     Exploration notes
  │   └── research/        Cached research
  └── docs/                Generated strategic documents

  Use /northstar:resume to continue after interruption.
  Use /northstar:export to create a shareable zip.

EXAMPLES

  # Start strategic discovery
  /northstar:advisor --ux

  # Research and generate all documents
  /northstar:advisor-build

  # Generate only the architecture phase
  /northstar:advisor-build --only 6

  # Add UX and deep templates after initial build
  /northstar:advisor-build --full

  # Check progress
  /northstar:status

  # Export for sharing
  /northstar:export

MORE INFO

  Documentation: https://github.com/AI-Native-Systems/north-star-advisor
  Author: Patrick Pena / AI Native Systems™

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 144 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A fe588027d506

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help is a command published in the GitHub repository AI-Native-Systems/north-star-advisor (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 984 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.