help

help is a skill for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to slushpile, a job-application pipeline made of skills and agents that turns a job listing into reviewed application materials. It explains the workspace files, the order of operations, and how to set up a voice agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are new to slushpile, need the next command, or have a workspace problem. It explains the pipeline and where its files are stored.
Why use it?
It helps users understand what to run next and how the parts fit together. It also checks whether the workspace has been set up before recommending another step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when you are new to slushpile, need the next command, or have a workspace problem. It explains the pipeline and where its files are stored.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/help
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 VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile --skill help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,274 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.02274
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00227

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d93a0116ceb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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 · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Help

Answer the user's actual question from what follows. Do not print this whole file at them — pick the section that matches what they asked and answer from it in a few lines.

If they asked a general "what is this" or "what do I run", give them the Pipeline section and the single next command for their situation. Check the workspace state before recommending anything: if preferences.yaml is absent, the answer is always onboarding, whatever they asked.

What slushpile is

A job application pipeline. Ten skills and eight agents that take a role from a careers-board listing to a resume and cover letter that have already survived an adversarial review.

The idea it rests on: you are not graded against the job description, you are graded against the other applications in the same queue. Every scoring step is anchored to that queue rather than to the posting. This is why the output sometimes says a differentiator the user is proud of is median, and why it reports probabilities per submission channel instead of one verdict.

It never submits anything. Every skill writes files. The user reads them and sends them.

The pipeline

Order Command What it does
Once /slushpile:onboard Builds the workspace: profile.md, preferences.yaml, stories.md
Per company /slushpile:job-board-search <company|query> Searches, extracts postings, scores pool-anchored fit, runs the contrarian gate, creates role folders. Takes a company name, or a query describing the work and where — a query is resolved into a company list and confirmed before anything is searched
As needed /slushpile:explore-experience <role folder> Interviews to surface experience the user has but never wrote down
Per role /slushpile:outreach <role folder> Finds who they already know at the company, grades the path honestly, drafts the referral ask or the cold note, and writes the contacts into the Referrals table. Run it wherever the warm channel is the highest-EV one and no referrer exists yet
Per role /slushpile:application-builder <role folder> Builds resume and cover letter, iterates against review until stable
Per role /slushpile:adversarial-review <role folder> Seven agents, five in parallel, verdict per channel
As needed /slushpile:removing-ai-tells <file> Strips AI-authorship signals from prose, with gatekeeper review
Any time /slushpile:redesign-templates Restyles the resume and letter templates, holding the ATS constraints fixed
Any time /slushpile:status The queue, what is waiting on them, and whether the pipeline's predictions are holding up
Any time /slushpile:help This

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 9d ago First seen · 136 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 8d93a0116ceb

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help is a skill published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,274 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 2026-08-30.

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