new-function

A guided process for adding a new template function to jhelm, a Java implementation of Helm-style templates. It covers functions from Helm and Sprig, a library of template helpers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding functions for strings, collections, logic, maths, encoding, dates, networking, semantic versions, or other listed template features.
Why use it?
It helps place the function in the correct category and follow the project's implementation steps. The available excerpt does not describe the complete process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/alexmond/jhelm/new-function
Any agent
npx skills add alexmond/jhelm --skill new-function
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmond/jhelm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 536 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 $0.00018 $0.00536
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00268
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ce14dff5b2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-function 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.

.claude/skills/new-function/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add a new template function

Guided workflow for adding a new template function named $ARGUMENTS.

Step 1: Determine the category

Helm functions (in jhelm-gotemplate/src/main/java/.../helm/):

  • conversion/ConversionFunctions.java — YAML/JSON conversion (toYaml, fromJson, etc.)
  • template/TemplateFunctions.java — Template inclusion (include, tpl, required)
  • kubernetes/KubernetesFunctions.java — Kubernetes integration (lookup)
  • chart/ChartFunctions.java — Chart utilities (semverCompare, certificate generation)

Sprig functions (in jhelm-gotemplate/src/main/java/.../sprig/):

  • strings/StringFunctions.java — String manipulation
  • collections/CollectionFunctions.java — List/dict operations
  • logic/LogicFunctions.java — default, empty, coalesce, ternary
  • math/MathFunctions.java — Arithmetic operations
  • encoding/EncodingFunctions.java — Base64, SHA, etc.
  • crypto/CryptoFunctions.java — UUID, random, encryption
  • date/DateFunctions.java — Date formatting/manipulation
  • reflection/ReflectionFunctions.java — Type checking
  • network/NetworkFunctions.java — DNS lookup
  • semver/SemverFunctions.java — Semantic versioning

Step 2: Implement the function

  1. Add the function to the appropriate category class
  2. Follow existing patterns in that class (method signature, error handling)
  3. Use @Slf4j for logging if needed
  4. For strict variants, create a must* version that throws on error

Step 3: Registration

The function auto-registers via the coordinator:

  • Helm functions: HelmFunctions.javagetFunctionCategories()
  • Sprig functions: SprigFunctionsRegistry.javagetFunctionCategories()

If adding a new category, update getFunctionCategories() in the appropriate coordinator.

Step 4: Add tests

Add tests in the corresponding test class (e.g., Helm4FunctionsTest.java, or the test class for the Sprig category).

Step 5: Verify

Run the relevant module tests:

./mvnw test -pl jhelm-gotemplate

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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 · 57 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 6ce14dff5b2e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

new-function is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexmond/jhelm (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 536 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.

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