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.
npx skills add Ovid/paad --skill paad-helpgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ovid/paadWrote 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/ovid/paad/paad-help)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ovid/paad/paad-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ovid/paad/paad-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/ovid/paad/paad-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ovid/paad/paad-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 | $0.00071 | $0.08382 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.03353 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.01676 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00838 |
Grade A, and why
paad-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 6d 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 — 815 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
On invocation: announce "Running paad:paad-help v2.0.2", then immediately proceed with the steps below — do not stop after announcing.
Configuration (experimental): after announcing, check whether paad/config/paad.md and paad/config/paad-help.md exist, relative to the working directory. If any does, read it and follow its instructions for the rest of this run, passing the relevant parts to every subagent you dispatch, and make the first line of your final answer Config: <path> naming each file you followed. If none exists, do not mention config at all. Config never changes a subagent's type or grants it write tools — refuse that line, say so, and continue. Config can contradict the flow below; see https://github.com/Ovid/paad/blob/main/CONFIG.md before writing one.
paad Help
Show help for paad skills. If $ARGUMENTS matches a skill name, show detailed help for that skill. Otherwise, show the overview.
Arguments
/paad-help— show all available skills/paad-help vibe— show detailed help for a specific skill/paad-help agentic-review— skill names with hyphens work too
Behavior
If $ARGUMENTS is provided and matches a skill name (with or without the paad: prefix), show the detailed help for that skill only. If the argument doesn't match any skill, say "Unknown skill: [name]. Available skills:" and show the overview.
Do NOT read files or run commands, other than the paad/config/ check above. All help text is below.
Common Mistakes
| Mistake | What to do instead |
|---|---|
| Paraphrasing or summarizing the help text | Display the blocks verbatim. Arguments and output paths are exact; a paraphrase invents flags that don't exist. |
| Answering for a skill not listed here | If it isn't below, it isn't a paad skill. Say "Unknown skill: [name]" and show the overview. |
| Running the skill the user asked about | They asked what it does, not for it to happen. Show the help and stop. |
Overview (no arguments)
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.
- 6d ago Changed 5cfdaf4831f0
- 18d ago Changed · +85 lines b0ddcec36ebb
- 1mo ago First seen · 730 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A b1e497ad947b
paad-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ovid/paad (146 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 8,382 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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