can-i-help

can-i-help is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only helper for finding suitable contribution tasks in a software repository, such as beginner-friendly issues. It gives a small set of recommendations supported by repository evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify files or tasks worth working on, understand why they are good choices, and start the selected contribution.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through files and project information to decide where to contribute. Each suggestion includes why it fits and a concrete first step.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to identify files or tasks worth working on, understand why they are good choices, and start the selected contribution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/can-i-help
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 OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill can-i-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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 can-i-help

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/can-i-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/can-i-help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,998 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 90
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00045 $0.02998
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01499
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00300

Measured 2d ago against content hash 825cfeaf10ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

can-i-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 2d 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.

.devin/skills/can-i-help/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Can I help

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The user asks "where can I help", "what can I contribute", "find a good first issue", or "what should I work on".
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect None; ranked recommendations only.
Done Two to five evidenced recommendations with what, why, location, and first step, each based on a read source range and carrying a certainty label.

Inputs

  • Target repository (optional): defaults to the current working directory. If the user supplies a path, use it.
  • Developer interest (collected during execution, not supplied upfront): a single-select choice that routes signal ranking.

Procedure

  1. Bound scope. If the user already named an exact task or issue, stop: solve that task instead. If the request is pure project orientation with no contribution decision, produce orientation, not recommendations. If the repo cannot be read locally and no public issue tracker is available, report what is missing and stop. Done when: scope is bounded to contribution recommendations, or the request is redirected to the named task or orientation.

  2. Resolve target and collect base context. Default target is the current repo unless the user supplied a path. Capture the project shape before ranking:

    • Manifests: fd '^(package.json|pyproject.toml|Cargo.toml|go.mod|pom.xml|build.gradle|deno.json|bun.lockb|pnpm-lock.yaml|requirements.txt)$' <repo>.
    • Top-level structure: fd --max-depth 3 --type f <repo>; exclude generated/vendor directories.
    • README / contributing docs: fd '^(README|CONTRIBUTING|DEVELOPMENT|HACKING)(\..*)?$' <repo> then read the relevant file ranges.
    • Test roots: fd '(^test$|^tests$|__tests__|spec$|\.test\.|\.spec\.)' <repo>.
    • Build/test commands: derive from manifest scripts, Makefile targets, CI config, or existing docs; mark certainty MEDIUM unless a command is explicitly declared. Done when: the project shape and active local modifications are recorded.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 825cfeaf10ba
  2. 4d ago First seen · 96 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 12d1f798fd89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

can-i-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,998 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 2026-09-03.

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