help

A help command that shows the available Shipyard commands and skills, with a quick reference for common development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find commands for project setup, requirements exploration, code mapping, planning, building, reviews, audits, research, simplification, and documentation.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the right Shipyard command without memorizing the command names.

Command

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/lgbarn/shipyard/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,403 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 $0.00008 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6e8d5f694a45, 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 2d 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 · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/shipyard:help - Quick Reference & Help

You are executing the Shipyard help command. Follow these steps precisely.

Step 1: Check for Topic Argument

If a topic argument was provided (e.g., /shipyard:help build), skip to Step 3.

If no argument was provided, show the default quick-reference table (Step 2).

Step 2: Default — "I Want To..." Quick Reference

Display this table:

Shipyard Quick Reference
═══════════════════════════════════════════

I Want To...                        Command
─────────────────────────────────────────────
Set up a new project                /shipyard:init
Explore requirements                /shipyard:brainstorm
Understand existing code            /shipyard:map
Plan a phase                        /shipyard:plan [phase]
Build from a plan                   /shipyard:build [phase]
Quick one-off task                  /shipyard:quick "task"
Review my code                      /shipyard:review
Security check                      /shipyard:audit
Research technology options          /shipyard:research "topic"
Find duplication/complexity          /shipyard:simplify [scope]
Generate documentation               /shipyard:document [scope]
Run tests and verify                /shipyard:verify [criteria]
Check progress                      /shipyard:status
Change settings                     /shipyard:settings
Rollback to checkpoint              /shipyard:rollback
Recover from errors                 /shipyard:recover
Ship completed work                 /shipyard:ship

Then display:

"For detailed help on a specific command or skill, run /shipyard:help <topic>." "Example: /shipyard:help build or /shipyard:help tdd"

Stop here.

Step 3: Topic-Specific Help

Match the topic argument to a command or skill:

Command Topics

Topic Maps To
init /shipyard:init — Set up project preferences (interaction mode, git strategy, quality gates)
brainstorm /shipyard:brainstorm — Socratic dialogue exploring goals/constraints, produces PROJECT.md
import-spec /shipyard:import-spec <feature-path> — Import a spec-kit feature spec (replaces brainstorm)
import-spec-file /shipyard:import-spec-file <path> — Import a handwritten spec file; interviews to fill gaps
plan /shipyard:plan [phase] — Research + architect + verify agents create executable plans
build /shipyard:build [phase] — Builder agents per plan + two-stage review + security audit
ship /shipyard:ship — Verification + tests + audit + docs + delivery options
status, s /shipyard:status — Progress dashboard with next-action routing
resume /shipyard:resume — Reconstruct context and resume interrupted work
settings /shipyard:settings — View/update config preferences
quick, q /shipyard:quick "task" — Architect + builder for small tasks
review /shipyard:review — Two-stage code review (spec + quality)
audit /shipyard:audit — OWASP + secrets + dependencies + IaC security
simplify /shipyard:simplify — Detect duplication, dead code, over-engineering
document /shipyard:document — Generate API docs, architecture, user guides
research /shipyard:research "topic" — Evaluate technology options
verify /shipyard:verify — Run acceptance criteria, record evidence
map /shipyard:map — Deep codebase analysis (up to 7 docs)
issues /shipyard:issues — Manage deferred issues with severity tracking
rollback /shipyard:rollback — Revert to a git checkpoint
recover /shipyard:recover — Diagnose and fix state inconsistencies
worktree /shipyard:worktree — Git worktree management
doctor /shipyard:doctor — Check plugin health and dependencies
cancel /shipyard:cancel — Pause in-progress work with checkpoint
help /shipyard:help — This help command

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 6e8d5f694a45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a command published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 1,403 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 2026-08-30.