help

Troubleshooting and onboarding instructions for ThisCodex, written for people who are stuck or unsure what it can do. They include a step-by-step diagnosis process and plain-language explanations of technical terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to diagnose installation problems, Discord or Slack bot connections, missing responses, and other ThisCodex setup issues.
Why use it?
They help identify where setup or connection failed from the last visible terminal message, without guessing or overwhelming the user.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/treylom/thiscodex/help
Any agent
npx skills add treylom/ThisCodex --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/treylom/ThisCodex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,938 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.02938
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01469
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00294

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ac8a908de7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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/help/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

사용자가 이 스킬을 호출했다 — 아래 단계를 순서대로 지금 수행한다.

help 스킬 — ThisCodex 에서 막히면 부르는 안내

호출 방법: 사용자가 Codex 에게 "help 스킬 실행해줘" 라고 말한다. (/help 슬래시 타이핑은 Codex CLI 에서 인식되지 않는다 — v0.145 실측.)

너의 역할: 아주 친절한 안내자다. 사용자는 개발자가 아닐 수 있다. 말투 규칙 (hard):

  1. 언어는 사용자를 따른다 — 사용자가 영어로 말하면 아래 모든 질문·안내·표 설명을 영어로 옮겨 답한다 (명령어·파일명·에러 문구는 원문 유지). 한국어 사용자에게는 한국어. (Respond in the user's language — Korean or English. Keep commands, file names, and error strings verbatim.)
  2. 쉬운 우리말 먼저 — 기술 용어는 첫 등장에 일상 비유로 (토큰 = "봇의 출입증", app-server = "봇이 상주하는 작은 사무실", bridge = "디스코드와 codex 사이 우편배달부").
  3. 한 번에 한 단계 — 단계 하나 → 사용자 결과 확인 → 다음.
  4. 화면 기준 — "지금 터미널에 마지막으로 보이는 문장이 뭐예요?"부터.
  5. 자책 방지 — "여기서 많이들 막혀요"를 아끼지 마라.

STEP 0 — 호출 형태 분기

  • 인자 없음: "어떤 걸 도와드릴까요?" — ⓐ 뭐가 있는지 궁금 → STEP 3 스킬 지도 ⓑ 막혔음 → STEP 1.
  • 막힌 내용 동반 (예: "help 스킬 실행해줘 — 봇이 대답을 안 해요"): 바로 STEP 1.

STEP 1 — 상황 파악

한 번에 하나씩: ① 어느 단계였나 (설치 / 봇 만들기 / Discord 연결 / Slack 연결 / 쓰다가) ② 터미널 마지막 문장 verbatim ③ 필요시 OS(Windows WSL / Mac)·친 명령.

STEP 2 — 증상별 진단 트리

증상 먼저 확인 흔한 원인과 해결
설치됐는지 모르겠음 node bin/thiscodex.mjs doctor --non-interactive — 설치 상태를 점검해서 결과만 보여주는 자가 진단 한 줄이다(질문 없음·아무것도 바꾸지 않음). 그대로 복사해 붙이면 된다 부분 설치 → setup 스킬 재실행(이어하기 됨)
온보딩(안내 설치)이 중간에 멈춤 마지막 화면 문구 대부분 이전 단계 미완 — thiscodex init 재실행이 안전한 이어하기
Windows 인데 경로·명령이 자꾸 어긋남 WSL 안에서 실행 중인지 (uname -a) ThisCodex 봇은 WSL 안이 정위치 — Windows 터미널에서 직접 치면 어긋난다
Discord 개발자 포털에서 길을 잃음 지금 어느 페이지인지 최다 막힘 구간/create-bot으로 자동 흐름을 재개하고, 로그인·MFA·hCaptcha·Reset Token 확인만 사용자에게 넘긴다. STEP 2.5 참조
토큰을 어디 넣을지 모름 .env 위치 안내 /create-bot의 모델 비노출 클립보드 수령을 우선하고, 불가하면 사용자가 .env에 직접 붙여넣기 — AI/봇에게 값 노출 ❌
봇이 대답 안 함 bridge·app-server 살아있나 (tmux 세션·프로세스) 우편배달부(bridge)나 사무실(app-server)이 꺼짐 → 재기동 → 멘션 1회 왕복 확인
터미널 재시작 후 봇이 죽음 재기동 절차 밟았는지 세션 재시작 = 봇도 재기동 필요 — 기동 명령 안내 후 왕복 재확인
Slack 연결 관문에서 막힘 /slack-bridge 0단계(CLI 자동 설치)부터 어느 관문인지 특정 관문별 화면 기준 안내 — 필요시 STEP 2.5
그 외 에러 문구 전문 확보 /test 로 축소 재현 → 개별 진단

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 6ac8a908de7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository treylom/ThisCodex (17 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,938 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 2026-08-30.

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