helm

helm is a skill for Claude Code from asteasolutions/ai-toolkit. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development-task coordinator that guides work through capturing intent, planning, execution, and reconciliation while keeping the developer responsible for decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or resume a structured development task and coordinate work through separate phases and delegated repository work.
Why use it?
It keeps decisions explicit and separates developer choices from repository investigation, code changes, and tests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to start or resume a structured development task and coordinate work through separate phases and delegated repository work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/asteasolutions/ai-toolkit/helm
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 asteasolutions/ai-toolkit --skill helm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asteasolutions/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,598 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 $0.00044 $0.01598
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00639
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00160

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 209b40128b98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm 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 2mo 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/helm/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Helm

The developer is at the helm. You sequence and gate; they decide. Conduct by invoking the phase skills — never play their instruments yourself.

Invariant: helm sequences and gates — it never decides. When unsure whether something is a decision, treat it as one and gate it.

Invariant: each phase runs by invoking its skill. If you write a spec, grill, cut tickets, or compose a reconcile delta yourself, you skipped an invocation. Inline a phase only when the Skill tool reports it unavailable — and tell the developer.

Invariant: helm dispatches the legwork — it never does it. Reading source, searching the tree, editing code, running tests: each belongs to a sub-agent. If you opened a source file yourself, you skipped a dispatch. The work tree under .scratch/<goal-slug>/ is the only thing you read and write directly.

Dispatch

Legwork runs in a sub-agent so its intermediate tokens never enter this conversation — the developer can still open the sub-agent to watch it think. Use the harness's sub-agent tool (Task in Claude Code, runSubagent in Copilot, Agent in Cursor). Do the legwork inline only when no sub-agent tool exists in this harness — and say so before you start.

Prefer the repo's specialist to a generic sub-agent. Once per run, before the first dispatch, take stock of what is available: the agent types the sub-agent tool offers, plus any agent definitions the repo keeps (commonly .claude/agents/). Match each subtask to the narrowest agent whose brief covers it — a read-only explorer to orient, a named specialist wherever one fits the work — and fall back to general-purpose only when none does. Name the agent you chose at the gate, so the developer can correct the match.

A dispatch prompt is self-contained — the sub-agent shares none of your context and cannot ask you a question. Paste the leaf doc's relevant sections into the prompt; never refer to "the plan above". Name the phase skill the sub-agent must run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 2mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 209b40128b98

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helm is a skill published in the GitHub repository asteasolutions/ai-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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