helm-dashboard

helm-dashboard is a skill for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,099 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns HELM’s local project logs into a self-contained HTML status page. HTML is the file format used by web pages, and the result can be opened directly without a server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a dashboard for one project or a portfolio, choose the output file, and share, commit, or delete the generated page.
Why use it?
It gives you a readable view of project phase, status, costs, saved model usage, and lessons without requiring an account, daemon, or network connection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py # this project -> .helm/dashboard.html.

Part of the helm plugin — 28 skills, 15 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a dashboard for one project or a portfolio, choose the output file, and share, commit, or delete the generated page.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sykoramade/helm-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-dashboard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install helm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 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 helm-dashboard

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-dashboard.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-dashboard)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-dashboard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-dashboard.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,099 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 $0.00077 $0.01099
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00110

Measured 8d ago against content hash cf0e89bfe457, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-dashboard 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 8d 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.

skills/helm-dashboard/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HELM Dashboard

What this is: one command that turns .helm/*.jsonl into a page the MD can look at.

The standard it holds: every number on the page is derived from the log. Nothing is entered by hand, nothing is estimated silently, and anything estimated says so on the page.

Why it is a file and not a server

HELM's promise is "it's just markdown. No service, no account, no telemetry." A dashboard is the first feature that would break that promise, so this one does not: it writes a static HTML file with no external requests, no fonts, no scripts, and no daemon. You can open it, email it, commit it, or delete it. Delete is always safe — it is a render, never a source of truth.

If you ever feel the pull to add a live server, a websocket, or a hosted view, that is a different product and it needs the MD's explicit decision, not a convenient default.

Running it

python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py                    # this project  -> .helm/dashboard.html
python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py --root <path>      # a named project
python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py --root <root> --portfolio   # every child project
python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py --out <path.html>  # choose the output
python3 tools/helm_dashboard.py --stale-days 7     # tighten the staleness window

Dependency-free, stdlib only, Python 3.7+. It reads:

  • .helm/decisions.jsonl — status, phase, timeline, cost
  • .helm/lessons.jsonl — the lessons panel
  • .helm/verdict-cache.jsonl — cache entries
  • .helm/founding-bet.md — the bet line shown under the project name

Missing files are simply absent from the page. It never fails because a ledger has not been created yet.

What it shows

  • Status badge, derived by exactly the rules in helm-portfolio: NEEDS-MD → BLOCKED → STALE → ON-TRACK (plus NO-DATA for an empty log). The page and the Portfolio CEO's briefing can never disagree, because they read the same table.
  • Cost — total tokens, gates measured, cache replays, and an estimated saving.
  • Lessons — the most recent entries, pattern first.
  • Recent decisions — the last 25 log lines.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A cf0e89bfe457

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helm-dashboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,099 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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