margaret-help

margaret-help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sofiahernandes/margaret. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,024 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A quick reference for Margaret commands, modes, supported coding tools, and command options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check commands such as Margaret's engineering mode and over-engineering scan, their arguments, and which coding tools support them.
Why use it?
It gives the relevant command syntax and behavior in one place without enabling a persistent mode or changing project files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the margaret plugin — 5 skills, 1 command 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/sofiahernandes/margaret/margaret-help
Any agent
npx skills add sofiahernandes/margaret --skill margaret-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sofiahernandes/margaret

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install margaret, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command.

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 margaret-help

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sofiahernandes/margaret/margaret-help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sofiahernandes/margaret/margaret-help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00056 $0.01024
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00512
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 5d ago against content hash 07c82f4b92ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

margaret-help scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Displays the current level (`[MARGARET]`, `[MARGARET:MAX]`). Not wired in automatically — add this to `~/.claude/settings.json`:
skills/margaret-help/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Margaret Help

Show this card on invocation. It's a one-shot display — don't switch modes, write state files, or persist anything as a side effect.

Supported hosts

Full command/skill/hook support: Claude Code (.claude-plugin/), Codex (.codex-plugin/, shares hooks/claude-hooks.json). Context-file only, no hook system or mode switching: Gemini CLI (gemini-extension.jsonAGENTS.md), Cursor (.cursor/rules/margaret.mdc), Windsurf (.windsurf/rules/margaret.md), Cline (.clinerules/margaret.md) — on these three the screen applies unconditionally, since there's no hook layer to drive /margaret lean|full|max. Copilot/Qoder ship reference hook manifests only (hooks/copilot-hooks.json, hooks/qoder-hooks.json) for manual wiring into that tool's own settings — no packaged install for either.

Commands

Command Args (default) What it does
/margaret lean|full|max|off (full) Senior-engineer persona: requirement check → reuse → stdlib → platform → dependency → one line → minimal build. Holds until changed or session end.
/margaret-scan [repo] (diff) One-shot over-engineering scan: L42: overbuilt: factory, one product. Inline. repo widens the scan to the whole tree instead of just the diff.
/margaret-review Switches the session persona to review mode: same complexity-hunt framing as /margaret-scan, but holds across turns and propagates into subagents like /margaret lean|full|max — not a one-shot pass. Hidden mode, not its own skill; revert with /margaret full or "stop margaret".
/margaret-guard Security pass on the current diff: exploitable findings only, false positives filtered out.
/margaret-design design|diagram|code|context|connect|motion (design) Figma bridge both ways: generate a new artifact or pull an existing file/selection into code.
/margaret-help This card.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 5d ago First seen · 77 lines · 56 tokens per session scan B 07c82f4b92ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

margaret-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository sofiahernandes/margaret (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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