help

help is a command for coding agents from MadAppGang/magus. It costs 26 tokens per session (971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help command for a code-analysis plugin that investigates existing code and reports where behavior is implemented and how files or methods connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the plugin’s available tools, then investigate questions such as where authentication is handled or which parts of the code depend on a symbol.
Why use it?
It gives developers a clear way to ask code questions and choose between search, dependency, call-tree, and text-matching tools.

Command

Part of the code-analysis plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 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 commands/madappgang/magus/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/magus

Or install code-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 971 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 $0.00026 $0.00971
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00485
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 3d ago against content hash 91aef2cc70ec, 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 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.

plugins/code-analysis/commands/help.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

code-analysis help

Present the following to the user.


code-analysis

Read-only investigation of code you did not write. Ask a question, get file:line locations and the flow between them.

/code-analysis:analyze Where is user authentication handled?

The tool surface

Tool Present Takes
code_search always query (free-form), intent, scope
find_dependencies, find_dependents, call_tree, find_implementations, impact only when the configured engine genuinely supports that operation symbol, depth / max_depth, scope
Read, Grep, Glob always

code_search is unconditional and infers intent from the query, so ask the real question. The structural tools appear only when the engine behind them can answer honestly — an absent tool means the engine cannot do it at all, never that it would be approximate.

Text search is the right tool for exact literals, occurrence counts and filename patterns. That is routing, not a fallback. The only rule is that a report names the method it used.

The engine

One engine at a time, named in project settings under a code-analysis block, read from your user settings, then the project's, then the project's local overrides. With none named, code_search runs on its own — a supported configuration, not a broken one.

Run /code-analysis:setup to see which engine is active, whether it answered a probe, and what the remedy is when it did not. Engines document their own installation; this plugin does not install one for you.


Agent (1)

Agent What it does
code-analysis:detective Investigates read-only — locates implementations, traces a feature end to end, maps inbound and outbound dependencies, tracks a bug to its origin

Reach for it when you need to understand how a feature works, where logic lives, how data flows, or why something breaks. It runs in its own context window and never edits anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 3d ago First seen · 108 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 91aef2cc70ec

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help is a command published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/magus (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 971 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.