tldr-help

tldr-help is a skill for Claude Code from 0p9b/TLDR. It costs 53 tokens per session (542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick reference for TLDR modes, commands, and skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need the syntax for concise modes, commit messages, code review comments, file compression, or turning TLDR off.
Why use it?
It explains how TLDR changes writing length and which commands are available without changing the current mode.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tldr plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need the syntax for concise modes, commit messages, code review comments, file compression, or turning TLDR off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0p9b/tldr/tldr-help
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0p9b/TLDR --skill tldr-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0p9b/TLDR

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tldr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 3 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.00542
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 9d ago against content hash 93a42b4584e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tldr-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 9d 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.

skills/tldr-help/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

TLDR Help

Display this reference card when invoked. One-shot — do NOT change mode, write flag files, or persist anything. Output in TLDR style.

Modes

Mode Trigger What changes
Lite /tldr lite Drop filler. Keep sentence structure.
Full /tldr Drop articles, filler, pleasantries, hedging. Fragments OK. Default.
Ultra /tldr ultra Extreme compression. Bare fragments. Tables over prose.
Wenyan-Lite /tldr wenyan-lite Classical Chinese style, light compression.
Wenyan-Full /tldr wenyan Full 文言文. Maximum classical terseness.
Wenyan-Ultra /tldr wenyan-ultra Extreme. Ancient scholar on a budget.

Mode stick until changed or session end.

Skills

Skill Trigger What it do
tldr-commit /tldr-commit Terse commit messages. Conventional Commits. ≤50 char subject.
tldr-review /tldr-review One-line PR comments: L42: bug: user null. Add guard.
tldr-compress /tldr-compress <file> Compress .md files to TLDR prose. Saves ~46% input tokens.
tldr-help /tldr-help This card.

Deactivate

Say "stop tldr" or "normal mode". Resume anytime with /tldr.

Configure Default Mode

Default mode = full. Change it:

Environment variable (highest priority):

export TLDR_DEFAULT_MODE=ultra

Config file (~/.config/tldr/config.json):

{ "defaultMode": "lite" }

Set "off" to disable auto-activation on session start. User can still activate manually with /tldr.

Resolution: env var > config file > full.

More

Full docs: https://github.com/0p9b/TLDR

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 93a42b4584e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tldr-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0p9b/TLDR (23 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 542 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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