specrew-help

A help command that lists the available Specrew slash commands and explains what to do next. Slash commands are text commands beginning with a slash, such as `/specrew-help`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover Specrew commands and understand their intended next steps; it only provides help and does not approve workflow transitions.
Why use it?
It gives first-time users and environments with incomplete command suggestions a reliable command catalogue.

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/alonf/specrew/specrew-help
Any agent
npx skills add alonf/specrew --skill specrew-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alonf/specrew

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 626 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 $0.00626
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash 60527a1f0510, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specrew-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.

.agents/skills/specrew-help/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

specrew-help

Type: Discovery Skill Schema: v1 Status: Active Namespace: /specrew Canonical command: /specrew-help

Purpose

Show the full Specrew slash-command catalog and provide next-step guidance. This is the canonical fallback catalog for every supported environment — reliable even when host-native /specrew- discovery is unavailable or incomplete.

When to Use

  • When a user wants to discover available Specrew commands.
  • When the host environment does not surface inline slash-command suggestions.
  • When a first-time Specrew user needs orientation.
  • When a user types /specrew-help or asks: "What Specrew commands are available?", "How do I use Specrew?", "Show me Specrew help".
  • As a discovery fallback in any environment where /specrew- suggestions are degraded or unknown.

Boundary Safety

This skill provides discovery and help information only. It does not authorize or imply approval to advance any lifecycle boundary. It must never replace or absorb /speckit.* lifecycle help.

Invocation

/specrew-help

No arguments are accepted in v1. The command always shows the full catalog.

Backed by: built-in catalog help output in scripts/specrew.ps1 (help mode)

Outputs

The full v1 /specrew-* slash-command catalog:

Command Description Notes
/specrew-where Show the current Specrew project status dashboard
/specrew-status Alias for /specrew-where Produces identical output
/specrew-update Refresh Specrew-managed assets and supported platform baselines
/specrew-team Manage Squad team members and baseline-role composition
/specrew-review Trigger or inspect the review-oriented workflow
/specrew-help Show this catalog
/specrew-version Show the installed Specrew version and slash-command compatibility state

Next-step guidance:

  • New to Specrew? Start with /specrew-where to see your project status.
  • Need to set up a project? Use specrew init from the terminal.
  • Want to see available Spec Kit lifecycle commands? Use /speckit.help (separate namespace).

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 74 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 60527a1f0510

Subscribe to this mod's changes

specrew-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository alonf/specrew (54 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 626 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 2026-08-30.

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