help

A help guide for Grok setup and configuration, including authentication, MCP servers, skills, slash commands, shortcuts, and troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer setup questions, inspect current configuration, add MCP servers, configure authentication, or learn how skills, commands, and project rules work.
Why use it?
It gives a defined place to look when Grok is difficult to configure or when you need to understand one of its features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/royzhao1991/lingshu/help
Any agent
npx skills add RoyZhao1991/LingShu --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RoyZhao1991/LingShu

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 650 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 $0.00053 $0.00650
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00325
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4595c5fc67cb, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • help — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
Runtime/Grok/crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell/skills/help/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Grok Help

Answer the user's question about Grok setup, configuration, or features.

Steps

  1. If the question is about current config (what MCP servers, models, or settings are active), read ~/.grok/config.toml. MCP servers are under [mcp_servers.*] sections.

  2. If the question is about how to do something (setup, adding MCP servers, creating skills, authentication, keyboard shortcuts, troubleshooting), first check the user-guide docs at ~/.grok/docs/user-guide/. The available guides are:

    • 01-getting-started.md -- Installation, first launch, basic interaction
    • 02-authentication.md -- Browser login, API keys, OIDC, external auth
    • 03-keyboard-shortcuts.md -- Complete key bindings reference
    • 04-slash-commands.md -- All / commands
    • 05-configuration.md -- config.toml, pager.toml, env vars
    • 06-theming.md -- Themes, appearance customization
    • 07-mcp-servers.md -- MCP server setup and management
    • 08-skills.md -- Creating and using skills
    • 09-plugins.md -- Plugin marketplace
    • 10-hooks.md -- Lifecycle hooks
    • 11-custom-models.md -- BYOK, Ollama, OpenAI endpoints
    • 12-project-rules.md -- AGENTS.md project rules
    • 13-memory.md -- Cross-session memory
    • 14-headless-mode.md -- CLI scripting and CI/CD
    • 15-agent-mode.md -- ACP/stdio IDE integration
    • 16-subagents.md -- Subagents and personas
    • 17-sessions.md -- Session management
    • 18-sandbox.md -- Sandbox mode
    • 19-plan-mode.md -- Plan mode
    • 20-background-tasks.md -- Background tasks and monitoring
    • 21-terminal-support.md -- tmux, SSH, truecolor, clipboard, /terminal-setup Read the relevant guide(s) for the user's question. If none match, fall back to ~/.grok/README.md for the comprehensive reference.
  3. To modify config for the user, edit ~/.grok/config.toml with search_replace.

  4. To create a skill for the user, create ~/.grok/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (read ~/.grok/docs/user-guide/08-skills.md for the SKILL.md format).

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 · 51 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4595c5fc67cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository RoyZhao1991/LingShu (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 650 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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