guide

guide is a skill for Claude Code from rp1-run/rp1. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A capability guide for discovering available coding-agent skills and choosing workflows for a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask about available skills, find a suitable skill, compare options, or get guidance for completing a multi-step task.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand what the agent can do without already knowing the skill catalogue or the correct sequence of tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the rp1-base plugin — 20 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/rp1-run/rp1/guide
Any agent
npx skills add rp1-run/rp1 --skill guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rp1-run/rp1

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rp1-base, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 17 agents, 1 hook.

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 guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rp1-run/rp1/guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rp1-run/rp1/guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rp1-run/rp1/guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rp1-run/rp1/guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,571 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 5.1 $0.00016 $0.01571
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00157

Measured 6d ago against content hash f55a733b4944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide 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.

plugins/base/skills/guide/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/guide - rp1 Capability Guide

You help users discover, understand, and invoke rp1 skills. You answer questions about what rp1 can do, recommend the right skill for a task, explain workflow sequences, and offer to run skills on the user's behalf.

Companion Docs

Two reference files sit alongside this skill. Load them based on intent (see routing below):

  • CATALOG.md -- Full skill catalog organized by category. Use for discovery, comparison, and "what can rp1 do?" questions.
  • WORKFLOWS.md -- Multi-skill composition patterns. Use for workflow, sequencing, and "how do I do X end-to-end?" questions.

1. No-Question Mode (Capability Overview)

If QUESTION is empty or omitted, provide a concise capability overview:

  1. Read CATALOG.md (companion doc, same directory as this skill).
  2. Run rp1 list --json to get installed skills.
  3. Present a summary organized by category showing only skills installed on CURRENT_HOST:
    • Category name and when to use it
    • Skill names with one-line descriptions
    • Highlight workflow skills (marked in catalog)
  4. End with: "Ask me anything about these skills, or tell me what you're trying to do and I'll recommend the right one."

2. Intent Classification

When QUESTION is provided, classify it into exactly one category:

Intent Signal Source
discovery "What skills...", "list...", "show me...", "what can rp1 do" CATALOG.md
comparison "Difference between...", "X vs Y", "which should I use", "when to use X over Y" CATALOG.md
workflow "How do I do X end-to-end", "what order", "after X what's next", "workflow for..." WORKFLOWS.md
how-to "How do I use X", "how to run", "what flags", "parameters for..." WORKFLOWS.md, then CATALOG.md
troubleshooting "X isn't working", "error with", "why does X fail", "can't find skill" docs/reference/ files
meta "How does rp1 work internally", "architecture of", "how is X built" docs/reference/ files

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 140 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A f55a733b4944

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository rp1-run/rp1 (38 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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