help

help is a skill for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 18 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference command for VBW, a system for agreeing on requirements, planning work, building it, and checking the result. It lists VBW commands and when to use them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn commands for planning, research, recording decisions, running checks, and viewing project status.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember what each command does or which step comes next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the vbw plugin — 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn commands for planning, research, recording decisions, running checks, and viewing project status.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw
Claude Code
/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 701 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 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 $0.00018 $0.00701
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00280
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured today against content hash 307defd3a240, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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.

plugin/skills/help/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" interview 2>&1 || true

Write to the user's level, explanation depth and involvement (above; "-": plain words).

Show the user this, as is:

VBW turns what you want into proven, committed work. You agree on requirements and decide; VBW plans them with tests, you approve, VBW builds in parallel and proves each requirement, you check what only a person can judge, and you ship.

Command What it does
Everyday
/vbw:vibe [what you want] The one command: takes the project to its next step, stops when it needs you
/vbw:approve Approve the plan, its tests and the commands it may run (only you can); VBW also offers it as a choice where Enter approves
/vbw:status Where the project stands
Think and decide
/vbw:discuss [topic] Think something through; the outcome is recorded
/vbw:research [question] A sourced answer with a recommendation
/vbw:todo [idea], /vbw:list-todos Park an idea for later; see the list
Check the work
/vbw:qa Run every proof now and explain the result
/vbw:verify Check, one at a time, what only you can judge
/vbw:debug [the problem] Find a bug's root cause
/vbw:fix [what] A quick fix without planning; proofs re-run after
Your project
/vbw:init Set up VBW and its status line
/vbw:convert Bring a VBW 1 project into VBW 2
/vbw:map Map an existing codebase
/vbw:teach [convention] Teach VBW your project's conventions
/vbw:pause, /vbw:resume Stop safely; pick up where you left off
Settings and tools
/vbw:profile [careful/standard/fast] Models, autonomy and how VBW talks to you, in one switch
/vbw:config Each setting on its own
/vbw:skills, /vbw:rtk, /vbw:compress Community skills; token-saving compression
/vbw:doctor Check VBW's setup
/vbw:panel Whether the panel and its "needs you" sound work here; /vbw-panel and /vbw-sound use them
/vbw:report Prepare a bug report (you see it first)
/vbw:update, /vbw:whats-new, /vbw:uninstall Update VBW, see what changed, remove it
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. today First seen · 50 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 307defd3a240

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 701 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-22.

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