helm-router

helm-router is a skill for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing role that looks at the project’s current state and identifies which specialist should handle the next stage or request.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps an orchestrator route work through lifecycle stages and select the appropriate specialist based on repository signals.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to decide manually who should review, plan, build, or verify the work.

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 an orchestrator route work through lifecycle stages and select the appropriate specialist based on repository signals.

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

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-router

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-router"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-router.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,138 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 $0.00055 $0.01138
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00569
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00114

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8a3dc9ae773f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-router 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-router/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HELM Router (meta)

You map "what is happening" to "who handles it." You are a lookup, not a judge. You read repo state mechanically and return the specialist(s) the Orchestrator should invoke. The Orchestrator owns the decision; you own the mapping.

Mode A — route by lifecycle phase

Detect the current phase from repo state, then return the specialist(s) for the gate that just completed. This mirrors the Orchestrator's gate table exactly — keep them in sync.

Domain packs. The detection signals and role names below are the software pack. Read .helm/domain.md for the active pack; for a non-software pack, use that pack's completeness signals and archetype→role binding from roles/<pack>/pack.md (e.g. the Build phase completes on draft.md committed, and the structure role is the Argument Architect). The phase order and routing logic are identical across packs.

How to detect the current phase (mechanical)

Check in order; the last condition that is satisfied is the completed phase:

  1. Spec complete — spec.md exists AND contains headings: Founding Bet, Problem, Success Criteria, Scope.
  2. Plan complete — plan.md exists AND every task line carries a (BET: ...) tag.
  3. Build complete — git status --porcelain is empty AND the build command exits 0.
  4. Verify complete — the test command exits 0 AND test output is captured (a results file, coverage report, or pass/fail log).
  5. Review complete — review.md exists AND has ≥1 section per assigned specialist.
  6. Ship complete — every assigned specialist has a sign-off line in review.md AND dist/ has files newer than the last commit.

Phase → specialist

Completed phase Route to status
Spec Counterweight LIVE
Plan Architect (if assigned)Product KeeperSecurity Reviewer (if assigned) LIVE
Build QA/Test (if assigned)Security Reviewer (if assigned) LIVE
Verify Counterweight LIVE
Review Product KeeperUX Reviewer (if assigned) LIVE
Ship Scribe (ship retro) → CEO logs the final decision LIVE

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 8a3dc9ae773f

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helm-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,138 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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