bmad-help

bmad-help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pdurlej/jan-subagent. It costs 51 tokens per session (826 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bmad-help, MIT.

A helper skill for BMad, a structured workflow for planning and building software with specialized agent tasks. It examines the current project state and the user’s question to explain what has been done and what should happen next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Answering BMad questions, identifying the current workflow stage, recommending the next skill, and offering the appropriate way to start it.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty when moving through BMad’s modules and phases, especially when several skills or documents may be involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Answering BMad questions, identifying the current workflow stage, recommending the next skill…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pdurlej/jan-subagent/bmad-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 pdurlej/jan-subagent --skill bmad-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdurlej/jan-subagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 826 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00051 $0.00826
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8966c636a5ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to bmad-help — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

_bmad/core/bmad-help/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMad Help

Purpose

Help the user understand where they are in their BMad workflow and what to do next. Answer BMad questions when asked.

Desired Outcomes

When this skill completes, the user should:

  1. Know where they are — which module and phase they're in, what's already been completed
  2. Know what to do next — the next recommended and/or required step, with clear reasoning
  3. Know how to invoke it — skill name, menu code, action context, and any args that shortcut the conversation
  4. Get offered a quick start — when a single skill is the clear next step, offer to run it for the user right now rather than just listing it
  5. Feel oriented, not overwhelmed — surface only what's relevant to their current position; don't dump the entire catalog

Data Sources

  • Catalog: {project-root}/_bmad/_config/bmad-help.csv — assembled manifest of all installed module skills
  • Config: config.yaml and user-config.yaml files in {project-root}/_bmad/ and its subfolders — resolve output-location variables, provide communication_language and project_knowledge
  • Artifacts: Files matching outputs patterns at resolved output-location paths reveal which steps are possibly completed; their content may also provide grounding context for recommendations
  • Project knowledge: If project_knowledge resolves to an existing path, read it for grounding context. Never fabricate project-specific details.

CSV Interpretation

The catalog uses this format:

module,skill,display-name,menu-code,description,action,args,phase,after,before,required,output-location,outputs

Phases determine the high-level flow:

  • anytime — available regardless of workflow state
  • Numbered phases (1-analysis, 2-planning, etc.) flow in order; naming varies by module

Dependencies determine ordering within and across phases:

  • after — skills that should ideally complete before this one
  • before — skills that should run after this one
  • Format: skill-name for single-action skills, skill-name:action for multi-action skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 74 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 8966c636a5ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bmad-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository pdurlej/jan-subagent (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 826 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to bmad-help, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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