help

help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dhaupin/vant. It costs 8 tokens per session (666 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick guide for common coding tasks, including running a project, understanding its code, fixing problems, checking work, building, and searching.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect package scripts, find entry points, trace code, review dependencies, diagnose errors, and run common npm commands.
Why use it?
It gives developers a starting point when they are unsure which files, commands, or checks to use.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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/dhaupin/vant/vant-skill-help.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dhaupin/vant/vant-skill-help)
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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 666 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 $0.00008 $0.00666
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00067

Measured 4d ago against content hash 42c7432f3166, 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 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.

models/public/skills/vant-skill-help/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Help

How do I do X?


Quick - What Do You Need?

Need Go To
Run something # Run
Understand code # Read
Fix something # Debug
Check something # Verify
Build something # Build
Find something # Search

Run

I want to run this project

# Check package.json for scripts
cat package.json | grep -A20 '"scripts"'

# Common commands
npm install
npm run dev
npm test
npm run build
npm start

I want to add a script

# Edit scripts in package.json
nano package.json

Read

I want to understand this code

  1. Find entry point:
# CLI: main file
head -20 bin/*

# Library: main export
grep "^module.exports" lib/*.js | head -10
  1. Trace what happens:
  • Read top to bottom
  • Functions call functions
  • Find where data comes from/goes to
  1. Check dependencies:
# What does it use?
grep -h "^const\|^import" *.js | sort -u

Debug

It's not working

  1. Check error message - Read what it says
  2. Find the error - grep for it
  3. Check recent changes - git diff
  4. Check env - variables set?
  5. Run with debug - NODE_DEBUG=* node app.js

Common fixes:

Error Fix
Cannot find module npm install
Syntax error Check line number
Auth error Check API keys
Port in use Kill process: lsof -i :port

Verify

Check if something works

# Test the thing
npm test

# Check output
node file.js

# Verify version
node -v
npm -v

Build

I want to build/deploy

  1. Check build command:
grep build package.json
  1. Common builds:
npm run build      # Frontend
npm run package  # Backend
  1. Deploy:
npm publish      # npm
git push        # deploy

Find something in code

# Find string
grep -r "string" .

# Find function
grep -r "function name" .

# Find file
find . -name "*.js"

Output

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 First seen · 173 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 42c7432f3166

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository dhaupin/vant (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 666 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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