help

help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from control-decks/think-it-through. It costs 67 tokens per session (648 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help utility for Think It Through, a deck of 16 cards for developing and examining ideas in conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand a card, learn the deck's command syntax, or get a recommendation for normal conversation, one card, or a card combination.
Why use it?
It explains cards and deck concepts so you can choose an appropriate interaction without accidentally running one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the think-it-through plugin — 17 skills shipped together

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/control-decks/think-it-through/help
Any agent
npx skills add control-decks/think-it-through --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/control-decks/think-it-through

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install think-it-through, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for help

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/help.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/help)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/control-decks/think-it-through/help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 648 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 $0.00067 $0.00648
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00065

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4e6c51da0992, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

plugins/think-it-through/skills/help/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🧩 Think Help

Treat this as the deck's contextual help utility, never as a card.

Resolve the request

  • With no argument, inspect the current conversation and recommend zero to three useful interactions.
  • With a card name or command, explain its use, default binding, effect, result, duration, limits, and one example.
  • With a deck concept, explain it in plain language and tie it to a concrete command.
  • With a free-form goal, recommend normal conversation, one card, or a combo.
  • Use the current provider's command syntax. Fall back to the portable card name when unknown.

Recommend Continue normally when no card would improve the next agent turn. Never play a card, set a Binding, change the conversation, or recommend domain actions. Leave concrete next actions to next.

Deck guide

Starter hand
distill · discuss · further
grill · recap · propose

Operation cards
distill  latest human message       → clear thoughts
discuss  current thought            → developed thought
interview smallest unclear subject  → shared understanding
grill    current testable idea       → verdict and risks
recap    available conversation     → map and synthesis
propose  current open decision       → one direction
next     latest actionable result    → one to three actions
further  current Working Object      → one grounded creative extension

Binding cards
on-conversation → all available topics and axes
on-topic        → one named or current topic
on-axis         → one named or current axis

Output cards
to-brief → portable thinking checkpoint
to-plan  → execution plan for review

Presentation cards
explain            → concise explanation of any HACP result
with-diagrams      → smallest useful visual
with-reasoning-map → supported reasoning structure

Think It Through uses Conversation → Topics → Axes only in the cards that need that model. A binding card selects material for the combo. Adjacent cards receive the current HACP Working Object, including across decks; the mental model never crosses that boundary. Operations transform the object and presentation cards render it without advancing it. A compatible HACP session adapter must already be active; there is no deck initializer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 80 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 4e6c51da0992

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository control-decks/think-it-through (3 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 648 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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