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.
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill tips-helpviewer-workflowgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socketWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/tips-helpviewer-workflow)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/tips-helpviewer-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/tips-helpviewer-workflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/tips-helpviewer-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/tips-helpviewer-workflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00093 | $0.00881 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00352 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00176 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00088 |
Grade A, and why
tips-helpviewer-workflow 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tips and HelpViewer Workflow
Purpose
Use the macOS Tips HelpViewer catalog as a read-only discovery surface for installed Apple Mac app guides. It owns local guide lookup and result verification; it does not replace the authoritative documentation owners for an app's in-app Help, Apple developer APIs, Xcode, Dash, or vendor documentation.
When To Use
- Use when an installed Apple Mac app needs task-specific operator help, a user-guide topic, or a menu-command hint.
- Use when a local HelpViewer/Tips catalog result must be verified before relying on it.
- Recommend
explore-apple-swift-docsfor Apple framework APIs or documentation-source routing, not for ordinary app user-guide discovery.
Single-Path Workflow
- Identify the requested Apple app and its installed version. Do not infer an app-guide match from a product-family name or an old search result.
- Open
com.apple.helpviewerand search for the app plus the user task. On this Mac, its window presents as Tips and exposes a searchable catalog; do not prefer the emptycom.apple.tipsshell. - Inspect the guide heading, result count, and matching topic. Confirm that the guide names the intended app and that the result answers the requested Mac task.
- Return the installed app/version, guide title, selected topic, a concise answer or navigation path, and the source classification
local-helpviewer. - If the catalog has no matching guide, is incomplete, or conflicts with the active app, move forward through one owner-aware fallback: the app's in-app Help, Xcode-local documentation for Apple developer APIs, Dash when its installed docset applies, then readable official vendor documentation. State the source actually used.
Outputs
- requested app and installed version
guide_match:matched,unavailable, orincomplete- guide title and selected topic when matched
- source classification:
local-helpviewer,in-app-help,xcode-local-docs,dash, orofficial-vendor-docs - one explicit handoff when the local catalog cannot answer the request
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A d89d7e9638d8
tips-helpviewer-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 881 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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