Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to noontide-co/mainbranch. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/noontide-co/mainbranch/main/.claude/skills/mb-help/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noontide-co/mainbranchWrote 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/noontide-co/mainbranch/mb-help)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/noontide-co/mainbranch/mb-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/noontide-co/mainbranch/mb-help/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/noontide-co/mainbranch/mb-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/noontide-co/mainbranch/mb-help.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00047 | $0.03765 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01883 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00753 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00377 |
Grade A, and why
mb-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 8d 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 — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Help
Answer questions, troubleshoot issues, explain philosophy, suggest next steps.
CLI facts first: For "what should I do?", setup, provider, skill wiring, or
troubleshooting questions, run mb status --json --peek and use mb doctor
for repair facts before giving prose-only advice.
Workflow
- Triage — Parse user's question/brain-dump
- Detect business type — Check current business files (Skool? Ecommerce?). If CWD looks like an old Main Branch repo, treat it as migration input and run
mb status --json --peekand/ormb doctor repair --planbefore relying on it. - Load reference — Find topic in references/ table below
- Answer — Explain "why" not just "what"
- Route — End with next skill or action
Topic Router
| Keywords | Reference |
|---|---|
| Terminal, drag files, cd, business folder vs site folder | terminal-basics.md |
| Business folder, CLI, skills, linked site folder, system model | system-model.md |
| Philosophy, why, compound, passive memory | philosophy.md |
| /mb-think, research, decide, codify | the-think-cycle.md |
| /mb-bet, bet, hypothesis, deadline, public narration, bet vs offer | skills-guide.md |
| Work continuity, where left off, GitHub issues | work-continuity.md |
| Error, command not found, MCP, Apify setup, GitHub issue | troubleshooting.md |
| Provider readiness, GitHub setup, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, Meta Ads, Apify | provider-readiness.md |
| Getting started, setup | Route to /mb-setup or /mb-start |
| Which skill, when to use, list skills, what skills do I have, skills inventory, what can you do, which skills are we using | skills-guide.md |
| Pre-publish review, UI pass, design pass, design critique, review the page before publish | Route to /mb-skill-review (see skills-guide.md) |
| Create skill, Notion export, custom | skills-guide.md |
| Migrate from GPT, ChatGPT | gpt-migration.md |
| Reels, TikTok, organic, /mb-organic | organic-help.md |
| Skool, community | skool-help.md |
| Wiki, atomic notes, publish, WikiLinks | Route to /mb-wiki |
| Launch readiness, Cloudflare, Wrangler, Shopify, Resend, smoke test, form test, booking link | Route to /mb-site; run mb launch check before launch-readiness advice |
| Site, landing page, lander, minisite, website, about page video, deploy site, publish site, conversion endpoint, concept variations | Route to /mb-site (see skills-guide.md for the full one-flow walkthrough) |
| Done, wrapping up, closing, end session, end of day | Route to /mb-end |
| multi-offer, product ladder, offers, switch offer | Multi-Offer FAQ (below) |
| Better outputs, quality, what next | making-outputs-better.md |
| Content strategy, pillars, platforms, newsletter, channel strategy, account strategy, founder voice, weekly content plan | content-strategy-help.md |
| Subagents, parallel, agents, context window, tokens | working-with-agents.md |
| workspace-isolated tools, sandboxed workspace, skills not showing | workspace-setup.md |
| Contribute, contributor | becoming-contributor.md |
What ships with it
18 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.
- references/becoming-contributor.md 3.7 KB
- references/cli-surfaces.md 6.7 KB
- references/content-strategy-help.md 7.8 KB
- references/engine-path-resolution.md 4.8 KB
- references/gpt-migration.md 3.9 KB
- references/making-outputs-better.md 4.0 KB
- references/organic-help.md 7.2 KB
- references/philosophy.md 3.1 KB
- references/provider-readiness.md 2.3 KB
- references/skills-guide.md 13 KB
- references/skool-help.md 3.3 KB
- references/system-model.md 2.5 KB
- references/terminal-basics.md 5.3 KB
- references/the-think-cycle.md 7.9 KB
- references/troubleshooting.md 8.8 KB
- references/work-continuity.md 4.1 KB
- references/working-with-agents.md 3.7 KB
- references/workspace-setup.md 2.1 KB
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 115 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 364f38fcc11f
mb-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository noontide-co/mainbranch (39 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,765 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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