nano-help

nano-help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from garagon/nanostack. It costs 34 tokens per session (746 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quick reference for nanostack commands, a set of commands for thinking through, planning, building, reviewing, securing, testing, and publishing software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up commands such as /think, /nano, /review, /security, /qa, /ship, and /nano-run.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the right command when you are starting a project, adding a feature, checking code, or preparing a release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the nanostack plugin — 18 skills, 1 command 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/garagon/nanostack/help
Any agent
npx skills add garagon/nanostack --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garagon/nanostack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nanostack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 command.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 746 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 $0.00034 $0.00746
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5d9683c3cef1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nano-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.

help/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/nano-help — Quick Reference

Show the user a concise overview of nanostack. No walls of text. Organized by what they want to do.

Telemetry preamble

Defensive telemetry init. No-op if telemetry is disabled via NANOSTACK_NO_TELEMETRY=1, ~/.nanostack/.telemetry-disabled, or if the helpers are removed.

_P="$HOME/.claude/skills/nanostack/bin/lib/skill-preamble.sh"
[ -f "$_P" ] && . "$_P" nano-help
unset _P

Response

Print this directly:

nanostack
Make your AI agent think first.

What do you want to do?

  Start a brand new project       → /think (or /think --autopilot)
  Add to a project that exists    → /feature <what to add>
  Already wrote code, check it    → /review  (then /security, /qa)
  Ready to save / publish         → /ship
  First time using nanostack      → /nano-run
  Not sure where to start         → /think (it helps you decide)

Reference — every command:

Getting started:
  /nano-run              First-time setup. Configures your project conversationally.
  /nano-help             You are here.

The sprint:
  /think                 Challenge the scope before building.
  /nano                  Plan the implementation. Files, steps, risks.
  build                  You or the agent writes the code.
  /review                Two-pass code review. Scope drift detection.
  /security              OWASP Top 10 + STRIDE audit. Graded A-F.
  /qa                    Test it. Browser, API, CLI, or debug.
  /ship                  Create PR, verify CI, generate sprint journal.

Shortcuts:
  /think --autopilot     Full sprint. Think, plan, build, review, audit, test, ship.
  /feature <description> Add a feature to an existing project with full sprint.

After shipping:
  /compound              Save what you learned. Future sprints find it automatically.

Safety:
  /guard                 Block dangerous commands. /freeze locks edits to a scope.

Team:
  /conductor             Parallel sprints across multiple agents or terminals.

Modes (for /review, /security, /qa):
  --quick                Small changes. Only the obvious.
  --standard             Default. Normal work.
  --thorough             Auth, payments, infra. Flag everything.

Update:
  /nano-update           Pull latest version.
  /nano-doctor           Diagnose install health (deps, perms, telemetry).

github.com/garagon/nanostack

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 3d ago First seen · 94 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 5d9683c3cef1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nano-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository garagon/nanostack (204 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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