self-service-and-knowledge

self-service-and-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 75 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to customer self-service content, including help centers, in-product guidance, and knowledge bases. Its focus is helping customers solve problems without contacting support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide what to document, write task-focused help articles, improve findability, maintain content, and measure how often it prevents support contacts.
Why use it?
It helps organize useful answers, improve searchability, and reduce avoidable support requests while identifying problems that documentation cannot fix.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the customer-experience plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide what to document, write task-focused help articles, improve findability, maintain content, and measure how often it prevents support contacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/self-service-and-knowledge
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,320 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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 cbrock84/headcount --skill self-service-and-knowledge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install customer-experience, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 714 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.00714
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured 4d ago against content hash e823a6d2607e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-service-and-knowledge 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 4d 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.

plugins/customer-experience/skills/self-service-and-knowledge/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-service and knowledge

Good self-service is the cheapest support you will ever run and the most neglected. It is also frequently the wrong answer — an article explaining a confusing screen is a bandage on a design problem.

Decide what deserves an article

Before writing, ask whether the contact should exist. If people repeatedly need instructions for one screen, the screen is the defect. Documenting it makes the problem permanent and invisible.

Write articles for things that are genuinely complex, genuinely occasional, or genuinely outside your control. Not for things that are merely badly designed.

What to write, and in what order

Rank by contact volume, not by feature importance. The most-viewed help content is almost never what the team expected — it is billing, access, and the one confusing setting.

Structure each article around the customer's task, in their words, not your feature's name. People search for what they are trying to do.

  • Answer first. The steps in the first screen, context afterward. Nobody arrives wanting background.
  • One task per article. Combined articles fail search, because the match lands on the wrong half.
  • Show the actual interface — real labels, real button names, updated when they change.
  • Say what to do when it does not work. The next step, and how to reach a human. Making that hard converts a solvable problem into a complaint about you hiding.

Findability decides everything

An article nobody finds does not exist. Findability comes from titles matching real search language, in-product links at the moment of confusion, and search that tolerates the words customers actually use rather than your internal vocabulary.

Read your help-center search logs, especially the queries returning nothing. That list is your content backlog, ranked by demand, already written for you.

In-product beats the help center

Guidance at the point of confusion deflects far more than a help center does, because it requires no decision to go looking. A well-written empty state, field hint, or error message removes contacts that documentation never would.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 4d ago Changed · +7 lines e823a6d2607e
  2. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 6ec06c25248b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-service-and-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,320 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 714 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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