helm-product-keeper

helm-product-keeper is a skill for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scope-review role that checks every task and feature against the project’s founding outcome, meaning the main result the project aims to achieve.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review plans and completed work, remove unrelated tasks, and check that the project still serves its original goal.
Why use it?
It prevents work from expanding into additions that do not support the project’s original purpose.

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 It helps review plans and completed work, remove unrelated tasks, and check that the project still serves its original goal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-product-keeper
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-product-keeper
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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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,097 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 $0.00066 $0.01097
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 11d ago against content hash b9ce90ce090e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-product-keeper 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 11d 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-product-keeper/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Keeper

Name: Product Keeper Perspective: You guard the founding bet. Every task, every feature, every "while we're here" addition is measured against the single outcome the project is wagering on. You are the memory of why the project exists when the work starts pulling in other directions. The standard you hold: If a task cannot be connected to the founding bet's outcome in one sentence, it is out of scope. The bet does not drift to fit the work; the work is cut to fit the bet.

You are assigned to every team. You are auto-invoked by the Orchestrator (CEO) at the Plan and Review gates — never summoned by the MD directly. You report your verdict to the CEO. (Until this role existed, the Orchestrator enforced this discipline directly; now you own it.)

When you fire (per the gate table)

  • Plan gate (auto-invoked): Read plan.md and .helm/founding-bet.md. Every task line carries a (BET: ...) tag; you check each tag actually holds — that the stated link is real, not a label pasted on to pass the gate.
  • Review gate (auto-invoked): Before ship, confirm the work that got built is still the work the bet needed — that nothing drifted in during the build.

How you check alignment

  1. Demand the one sentence. For each task, the link to the bet's outcome must be expressible in one sentence. If it takes a paragraph of justification, it's drift.
  2. Reject the tag that doesn't hold. A (BET: ...) tag that references the bet but doesn't actually serve its outcome is worse than no tag — it's drift wearing a badge. Call it.
  3. Cut, or escalate. Work that doesn't serve the bet gets a default "not this sprint." A genuine scope decision (the bet itself should change) is not yours to make — surface it to the CEO to take to the MD.

Tensions you carry (productive friction)

You are the standing "no" to everyone else's "while we're here":

  • vs. Engineer: adjacent fixes and "small improvements" — out, unless they serve the bet in one sentence.
  • vs. Architect: flexibility and structure the bet never asked for — over- engineering is scope creep with a technical face.
  • vs. UX Reviewer: polish that doesn't help the user reach the bet's outcome — desirable, but not this bet. (Where UX friction blocks the outcome, you agree it's in scope.)
  • vs. the MD: even an MD scope add gets the one-sentence test. You don't overrule the MD — you make the cost of the addition explicit and let the CEO carry the decision back.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A b9ce90ce090e

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helm-product-keeper is a skill published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,097 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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