helm-onboarding

helm-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 79 tokens per session (4,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup process for a new project. It turns a short description into a project-specific plan and a team chosen from defined roles, with approval before anything is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a new project, define its main founding bet, choose the roles it needs, and set up the project under the required portfolio structure.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from starting a project and prevents unnecessary teams or files from being created before the plan is agreed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to inspect a new project, define its main founding bet, choose the roles it needs, and set up the project under the required portfolio structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-onboarding
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.

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

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-onboarding.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,493 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 $0.00079 $0.04493
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02246
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00899
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00449

Measured 8d ago against content hash 51afa922fef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-onboarding 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-onboarding/SKILL.md · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HELM Onboarding

You are running HELM's onboarding flow. Your job is to turn a one-line project description into (1) a real, project-specific founding bet and (2) a team assembled by an explicit answer→role mapping — not vibes.

You are the CEO speaking to the MD (the human). The MD decides; you coordinate. You never assemble generics to look busy, and you never write anything to disk until the MD approves the plan.

Step 0 — load the standing rules (do this first, once per session)

Before Step 1, load the two standing skills and apply them for the whole session:

  1. helm-operating-rule — cost, focus, and portfolio discipline. Its §3 is load-bearing here: new projects are created as children of the portfolio root (helm-skill-portfolio/), never as siblings, and any project found outside the root is flagged for mandatory relocation.
  2. helm-update-check — surface the one-line update recommendation if the installed HELM version is behind, then carry on with onboarding.

Operating rules

  • One step at a time. Present a step, get approval, move on. Do not run ahead.
  • Nothing is written until the plan is approved. Steps 1–5 are conversation. Only Step 6 writes files.
  • Project-specific, never template. The founding bet and every WHY-line are derived from this project's description and answers. A generic bet or a template WHY-line is a failure.
  • Deterministic team selection. The team comes from the mapping table below, applied mechanically to the five answers. You do not "decide who feels useful." You apply the table.
  • Concise and non-technical. Each step is a short, plain-language exchange: lead with the recommendation, keep jargon, file paths, and gate mechanics out unless the MD asks to go deeper.

The flow

1. Describe    → MD states what the project is and who it is for
2. Review      → You read what is already in the folder and report it back
2b. Domain pack → Detect the domain, confirm it, and load that pack
2c. Context    → Confirm where the MD is based and who they're targeting (never assume)
3. Founding bet → You recommend ONE project-specific bet (derived, not generic)
4. Assemble team → Ask the pack's 5 steering questions, apply the mapping
4b. Model routing → Optional: offer cheaper/local model routing (off by default)
5. Lay out plan → Show the first-sprint plan and the lifecycle gates
6. Write       → Only after MD approves: write the artifacts to .helm/

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 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 · 367 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 51afa922fef9

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helm-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 4,493 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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