mags-help

mags-help is a skill for Claude Code from doancan/mags. It costs 20 tokens per session (683 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick reference for the MAGS plugin's commands, automatic skills, agents, and hooks. MAGS is a project documentation and memory system for Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see available MAGS features at a glance and choose the command or automatic helper relevant to your current task.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember which MAGS command to use for project setup, documentation, status checks, searches, or changelogs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the mags plugin — 17 skills, 2 agents 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/doancan/mags/mags-help
Any agent
npx skills add doancan/mags --skill mags-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doancan/mags

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mags, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 agents.

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 mags-help

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 683 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00683
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash e63c0492d743, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mags-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 5d 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.

skills/mags-help/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MAGS Help

Display a complete quick-reference of everything MAGS offers.

Steps

1. Display the reference

Present the following reference card directly (no tool calls needed for this step):

== MAGS Quick Reference ==

SLASH COMMANDS (10)
  /mags-help              Show this reference card
  /mags-init              Initialize MAGS for your project
  /mags-status            Project dashboard (docs health, memory, next steps)
  /mags-docs              List all project documents
  /mags-docs-create <t>   Create document from template
  /mags-docs-validate     Run document validation checks
  /mags-docs-search <q>   Search across all documents
  /mags-changelog         Generate changelog from git history
  /mags-setup             Recommend Claude Code configuration
  /mags-legacy            Initialize MAGS for a legacy/brownfield project

AUTO-ACTIVATING SKILLS (7)
  These activate automatically when Claude detects a relevant context:
  - doc-management        Creating or editing project documentation
  - memory-guidance       Storing decisions, conventions, or session context
  - claude-md-management  Working with CLAUDE.md configuration
  - testing-strategy      Planning tests, coverage targets, test pyramid
  - security-review       Security audits, OWASP, threat modeling
  - infrastructure        DevOps, CI/CD, containers, monitoring
  - api-lifecycle         API design, versioning, deprecation

AGENTS (2)
  - doc-sync-validator    Checks if documentation matches actual code
  - setup-recommender     Recommends plugins, skills, and hooks for your stack

HOOKS (1 — automatic, no action needed)
  - SessionStart          Loads project summary on startup

2. Show quick start

Call mags_list_docs to check if any documents exist.

If no documents exist, show:

QUICK START
  1. /mags-init           → Scan docs or scaffold from templates
  2. Tell Claude a decision → "We use JWT for auth" — auto-saved to memory
  3. /mags-status         → See your project dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A e63c0492d743

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mags-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository doancan/mags (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 683 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 2026-08-31.

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