coding.fix_use_helpers

A Python code review helper that finds places where project-specific helper functions could replace existing code. It focuses on debugging, file handling, and system interaction utilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Python files and replace hand-written debugging, filesystem, shell-command, environment-variable, or process-management code with functions from the helpers package.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated code and keeps common operations consistent without changing the program’s behavior.

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/causify-ai/helpers/coding.fix_use_helpers
Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill coding.fix_use_helpers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 156 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 $0.00013 $0.00156
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 3d ago against content hash 993fc4cad505, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding.fix_use_helpers 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 3d 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/coding.fix_use_helpers/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

  • I will provide references to one or more Python source files
  • Your task is to read and analyze the code across these files and identify what functions can be replaced with functions from the helpers
  • The most important packages are:
    • helpers/hdbg.py
      • Debugging utilities with specialized assertions, logging, and fatal error handling
    • helpers/hio.py
      • Filesystem operations, file read/write, and directory management utilities
    • helpers/hsystem.py
      • System interaction: shell commands, environment variables, process management
  • Do not changed the behavior of the code
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. 3d ago First seen · 19 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 993fc4cad505

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding.fix_use_helpers is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (145 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 156 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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