master-help

master-help is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xr843/Master-skill. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing skill that helps choose which Buddhist teacher or teaching mode fits a user’s question. It directs the question to a destination and does not explain the teaching itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks whom to consult, wants to compare teachers, needs a study order, or is unsure which Buddhist approach to choose.
Why use it?
It removes the need to know which teacher or tradition matches a topic, especially when the user describes a problem in everyday words.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the Master-skill plugin — 20 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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/xr843/master-skill/master-help
Any agent
npx skills add xr843/Master-skill --skill master-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xr843/Master-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install Master-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00097 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00113

Measured 4d ago against content hash 53c6e40b362e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

master-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 4d 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.

prebuilt/master-help/SKILL.md · 87 lines

What it actually says

该问谁 (Master Help) — 路由 Skill

本 skill 只做导航,不讲教义。选定目标后立即交棒,不要代替祖师回答。

唯一职责

用户不知道该用哪位祖师 / 哪个教学模式时,给出目标并停手。

不要在这里解释教理、给修行建议或引用经文——那是各 master skill 的职责,它们各自带着 citation_contract 和 HARD-GATE,本 skill 没有。

数据源

路由表在仓库根的 routing.jsonmode_rules / topic_pairings / default_pairing), 祖师关键词在各 prebuilt/<slug>/meta.jsonsearch_scope.keywords。 两处都是机器可读的单一数据源——不要凭记忆列举祖师或关键词,读文件。

确定性实现同样可用:

master-skill recommend "<用户原话>" --json

能跑就跑它,把结果转述给用户;跑不了再按下面的顺序人工走一遍。

路由顺序(短路,不可乱序)

routing.json.mode_rulesorder 一致:

1. 命中「学习计划 / 入门 / 先学什么 / 从哪开始 / 按什么顺序」 → /master-curriculum
2. 命中「辩论 / 谁更对 / 高下 / 之争 / 之辩 / 分判」          → /master-debate
3. 命中「对比 / 比较 / 不同 / 异同 / 各派怎么看」              → /compare-masters
4. 都不命中 → 单位祖师:按 meta.json search_scope.keywords 打分
5. 仍无命中 → routing.json.situations 白话状况层
6. 仍无命中 → routing.json.topic_pairings 主题配对
7. 再无命中 → routing.json.default_pairing

第 5 步是给说不出术语的人用的。search_scope.keywords 是教理检索词, 新手不会打"四念处",他会打"坐不住"。用户描述的是感受(妄念 / 看不懂 / 无力感 / 想学最朴素的)而非主题时,走这一层。

第 4 步打分规则:关键词长度 ≥ 2 才计分(单字 会在日常汉语里误命中,已被 min_keyword_length 排除);命中数高者优先; 平局时优先不同传统,仍平局按 slug 字典序。最多 3 位。

输出格式

你的问题看起来是 {判断},建议:

  /{目标}  — {一句话理由}

(其他可选:{备选1}、{备选2})

三行以内说完。用户要的是入口,不是综述。

边界

  • 用户已经说清楚要问谁时,不要触发本 skill,直接让目标 skill 接手
  • 不评价祖师高下,不说"某位更究竟"——这条与 /compare-masters 的 HARD-GATE 一致
  • 推荐落到密法相关祖师(atisha / tsongkhapa / milarepa)时,照常交棒, 由目标 skill 自己的边界规则处理密法内容
  • 路由结果不确定时,宁可给 2 个候选让用户选,也不要猜死一个

Quick Reference — 15 位祖师按传统

传统 祖师
印度 master-nagarjuna
汉传 master-kumarajiva · master-zhiyi · master-fazang · master-xuanzang · master-huineng · master-yinguang · master-ouyi · master-xuyun
藏传 master-atisha · master-tsongkhapa · master-milarepa
南传 master-buddhaghosa · master-mahasi-sayadaw · master-ajahn-chah

此表仅供快速定位。判断该选谁时以 routing.json 与各 meta.json 为准。

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 53c6e40b362e

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master-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository xr843/Master-skill (380 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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