help

help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mehrad-dm/mastermind. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,006 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help menu explaining what MasterMind can do, how to use it, and which skills fit the current project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see the available skills and agents, learn how to invoke them, and get recommendations based on the current project.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a clear starting point instead of requiring them to know the available commands or skills.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mastermind plugin — 23 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook 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/mehrad-dm/mastermind/help
Any agent
npx skills add mehrad-dm/mastermind --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mehrad-dm/mastermind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mastermind, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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/mehrad-dm/mastermind/help.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/help)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mehrad-dm/mastermind/help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,006 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 $0.00061 $0.02006
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01003
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00201

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9b5ca8160754, 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 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.

skills/help/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Help: what MasterMind can do, and how to use it

Present this as a clear, friendly menu (adapt length to the ask). Open with the brand header, then lead with the one thing that matters most, then the tables. Keep it scannable. Header:

🧠  MasterMind: a genius-builder brain for your AI
    24 skills · 4 agents · Claude Code · Cursor · Codex

Lead with what fits this project

Before the full menu, name up to three skills that would earn their keep here right now, each with the reason it applies: read from what's actually in front of you (the stack, the current task, what the last few turns were about, whether a field pack exists yet):

Most useful here right now
  · init: no field pack yet for this Django project; one-time setup, then I'm sharper on it
  · quarantine: there's client data in this repo; this keeps it out of git
  · handoff: this session is long; a handoff survives the reset

A full menu is a catalogue; three fitting picks are advice. Then give the tables below: the catalogue still matters, because the point is that the user learns what they already own.

The one rule: you don't run commands: you just talk

MasterMind works by recognizing intent. Say what you want in plain language and it applies the right skill or agent itself, then shows a short note that it did (e.g. 🧠 MasterMind ▸ building this, will verify before handoff, with └ build · design → implement → verify beneath it). The /name calls below are an optional shortcut: a way to force a specific skill, not something you need to memorize. Every skill is Auto (the model can invoke it); you can also call any of them by hand.

Skills: the workflows (all Auto-invocable)

Skill What it does Fires automatically when… Call it by hand
init set MasterMind up for this project: detect the stack (or ask what you're building), load the field pack your first real task in a project it isn't set up for "init" · "set up MasterMind"
build design → implement → verify → review → capture, end to end you ask to build/add/implement a non-trivial feature "build a search box for the header"
debug structured, evidence-first root-cause debugging a bug is hard, weird, or keeps coming back "debug why the list doesn't refresh"
performance measure → find the real bottleneck → fix the biggest → verify something's slow or janky ("why is this slow?") "why is this page so slow?"
qa prove a change works by driving it for real (+ optional tests) you finish something / ask to test it "qa this" · "write tests for it"
report a shareable write-up of a cycle: changed files, decisions, verification, verdict (MD default, HTML on request) you ask for a report; or end of build/qa if you turned it on (off by default) "give me a report of this" · "reports on"
interview turn a fuzzy ask into a crisp, buildable spec the request is ambiguous or spans many files "spec out the checkout flow first"
route load only the files/skills a task actually needs a task is non-trivial or you're unsure where to start "route this"
learn get up to speed fast on an unfamiliar stack/API, verify assumptions the tech is new, fast-moving, or you're guessing "learn how the Stripe API handles refunds"
prototype build a throwaway spike to learn, then rebuild properly the right approach is genuinely unknown "spike a quick prototype of this"
signature capture your team's real conventions as durable rules it follows you ask it to match your codebase / keep correcting the same thing "make it match our patterns"
persona write in the documented public style of a named engineer, cited you ask for someone's style ("write like X") "write this like Kent C. Dodds"
explain write AI-friendly usage docs beside an internal package an internal package has little/no docs (asks first) "explain this package"
prompt sharpen a vague prompt into a precise, AI-ready one you ask to optimize/fix a prompt for an AI "improve this prompt"
quarantine set up a private, gitignored quarantine for confidential data before capturing project/client-specific notes "set up a lab here"
levelup improve MasterMind's own knowledge (lessons, curriculum, new field) after a correction/review, or to refresh standards "levelup: remember this"
double-check interrogate a claim before handing it over: adversarial, reviewer never sees your conclusion you're about to say "it works", or a review came back suspiciously clean "doubt this"
deprecate remove/migrate/retire safely: expand → migrate → contract deleting a feature, column, flag, or endpoint "can we delete this?"
roadmap a durable decision map for multi-week work work spanning many sessions; "why did we decide X?" "map this project"
lint check MasterMind's own files for bloat, repeated rules, contradictions before a release, or the brain feels bloated "lint the brain"
clarify re-pitch an answer that did not land, in plain words or as a picture you say "I did not follow that", "simpler", "you lost me" "say that simply"
deepen survey an area and rank where the design costs most, you pick one "this is getting messy", "why is this so hard to change?" "where is this hurting?"
handoff write a concise handoff so work survives a reset/teammate before a long-task /clear, pausing, or handing off "write a handoff"
help show this menu, what every skill/agent does and when it fires you ask "what can you do?" / "help" / "how do I use this" "what can you do?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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 · 100 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9b5ca8160754

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository mehrad-dm/mastermind (24 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,006 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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