helios

helios is a skill for Claude Code from akougkas/helios-mcp. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preference profile for an AI coding agent that records how you want it to communicate, act, and handle risk. It can compare the agent’s behaviour with that profile and propose changes for you to approve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialise a persona from your configuration, view or check the profile, review behaviour drift, and import or export profiles in several file formats.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated instructions and makes behaviour changes visible instead of silent. You remain in control of updates to the profile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the helios plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent, 9 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialise a persona from your configuration, view or check the profile, review behaviour drift, and import or export profiles in several file formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akougkas/helios-mcp/helios
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 akougkas/helios-mcp --skill helios
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akougkas/helios-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install helios, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent, 9 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,630 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.
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 $0.00035 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00163

Measured yesterday against content hash f43eeb14d294, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-20, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helios 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • helios — 92% identical, 2 lines differ
helios-plugin/skills/helios/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Helios Behavioral Science

Helios observes your behavioral patterns and helps your agent learn your preferences. It detects when behavior drifts from your declared profile and proposes negotiated updates.

Commands

Route based on $ARGUMENTS:

  • /helios init [persona] — bootstrap Helios and onboard from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and the active output style
  • /helios or /helios status — show current behavioral profile
  • /helios drift — check for behavioral drift
  • /helios negotiate — review and accept/reject proposed changes
  • /helios import <path> — import a personality file into Helios
  • /helios export [format] — export behavioral profile (yaml, json, soulspec)

Init

When the user runs /helios init, or asks to (re)onboard from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: run the CLI directly. There's no MCP tool for this — it also sets the default persona, a filesystem-level change no MCP tool exposes.

helios-mcp init [persona]

Omit [persona] to reuse the already-configured default, or developer on a fresh install. Imports ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and the active output style into that persona's user level as the authoritative source and makes it the default persona. Idempotent — rerunning overwrites the persona's user-level profile instead of duplicating it.

Session Start

!helios-mcp status 2>/dev/null || echo "Helios not yet bootstrapped"

At the beginning of each session, call get_behavioral_context to load the user's behavioral preferences. Apply these preferences to guide your communication style, epistemic approach, interaction patterns, and risk posture. Omit persona_name unless the user names a specific persona — it falls back to HELIOS_DIR/default_persona, then "default". Pass model with your own model id when you know it (it's usually stated in your system prompt, e.g. claude-sonnet-5) so the context can counter that specific model's observed tendencies rather than the average across models.

Tool: get_behavioral_context
Args: { "model": "<your model id, if known>" }

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. yesterday First seen · 124 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f43eeb14d294

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helios is a skill published in the GitHub repository akougkas/helios-mcp (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,630 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 2026-09-19.

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