An interactive guide to devloop, a coding workflow where Claude works directly on the code. It explains the workflow, commands, optional skills and agents, and how to use the superpowers plugin.

Learning how to start devloop, plan and run coding tasks, save work before clearing context, and understand its skills, agents, and plugin workflow.

It gives developers a starting point when they do not know devloop's commands or working cycle. It also helps them find the right topic instead of searching through documentation.

help — Skill for Claude Code by Zate/cc-plugins

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 Zate/cc-plugins --skill help

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devloop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/help.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00019	$0.02308
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00923
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00462
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00231

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5441fec2a69d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

help scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf .devloop/ && /devloop

plugins/devloop/skills/help/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devloop Help

Interactive guide to devloop.

Step 1: Choose Topic

If $ARGUMENTS specifies a topic, skip to that section. Otherwise:

AskUserQuestion:
  questions:
    - question: "What would you like to learn about?"
      header: "Topic"
      multiSelect: false
      options:
        - label: "Getting Started"
          description: "New to devloop? Start here"
        - label: "Commands"
          description: "What each command does"
        - label: "The Loop"
          description: "The plan -> run -> fresh cycle"
        - label: "Skills & Agents"
          description: "On-demand knowledge and parallel work"
        - label: "Superpowers"
          description: "How devloop works with superpowers plugin"

Topic: Getting Started

What is devloop?

Development workflow where Claude does the work directly. No routine agents. Just you, Claude, and the code.

Quick Start

/devloop:plan "How should we implement feature X?"  # Plan (or --deep for exploration)
/devloop:run                                        # Execute tasks
/devloop:fresh && /clear                           # Save state, clear context (every fresh_threshold tasks (default 10, configurable in .devloop/local.md))
/devloop:run                                        # Continue execution

First Session

Have a task? /devloop:plan [task] (or --deep for detailed exploration)
Claude explores, creates plan
You approve
/devloop:run to implement
Every fresh_threshold tasks (default 10, configurable in .devloop/local.md): /devloop:fresh then /clear then /devloop:run
Done? /devloop:ship

Topic: Commands

Decision Tree

Starting new work?
|-- Unclear requirements  -> /devloop:plan --deep
|-- Small, clear task     -> /devloop:plan --quick
|-- Normal feature        -> /devloop:plan
|-- Have a plan           -> /devloop:run

Mid-workflow?
|-- Context heavy         -> /devloop:fresh -> /clear -> /devloop:run
|-- Ready to commit       -> /devloop:ship
|-- Want review           -> /devloop:review

Returning?
|-- /devloop:run

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 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.

1mo ago First seen · 302 lines · 19 tokens per session scan C 5441fec2a69d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,308 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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