What is coding.fix_use_helpers?

A procedure for replacing repeated Python code with matching functions from a repository's helpers package. The package contains utilities for assertions, files, shell commands, environment variables, and processes.

Use it to inspect Python files for suitable helper functions, replace matching code, and run the affected unit tests.

It reduces duplicate utility code while requiring the replacement to keep the existing behavior.

coding.fix_use_helpers — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

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.

Any agent

npx skills add gpsaggese/helpers --skill coding.fix_use_helpers

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 165 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00165
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00066
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00033
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash 8a5fb758f07c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding.fix_use_helpers 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/coding.fix_use_helpers/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Given Python source files <FILES>, find functions that helpers can replace.

Workflow

The most important packages are:
- helpers/hdbg.py
  - Debugging utilities with specialized assertions, logging, and fatal error handling
- helpers/hio.py
  - Filesystem operations, file read/write, and directory management utilities
- helpers/hsystem.py
  - System interaction: shell commands, environment variables, process management
Do not change the behavior of the code

Verification

Confirm replaced calls preserve the original behavior
Run the file's unit tests to confirm nothing broke

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.

yesterday First seen · 24 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 8a5fb758f07c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding.fix_use_helpers is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 165 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-11-06.

Languages Python

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