/help

name: help
license: MIT
compatibility: "Claude Code 2.1.251+."
description: "OrchestKit help directory with categorized skill listings. Use when discovering skills for a task, finding the right workflow, or browsing capabilities."
argument-hint: "[category]"
context: inherit
version: 2.1.0
author: OrchestKit
tags: [help, documentation, skills, discovery, meta]
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: [AskUserQuestion, Read, Grep, Glob]
complexity: low
persuasion-type: collaborative
effort: low
model: haiku
metadata:
  category: document-asset-creation
triggers:
  keywords: [help, "what skills", "skills can i", "available commands", "which skill", "show me skills", "ork commands", "what can", "whats ork", "skill for"]
  examples:
    - "what orchestkit skills can i use"
    - "show me the available ork commands"
    - "help me find the right skill for code review"
  anti-triggers: [fix, implement, doctor, setup, explore, assess]

OrchestKit Skill Directory

Dynamic skill discovery: enumerates the installed plugin at runtime so listings are never stale.

> **CC 2.1.121+ tip:** if you just want to find one skill quickly, the native `/skills` command now has type-to-filter — open it and start typing the skill name. Use `help` when you want categorized browsing or rationale for *why* a skill applies.

Quick Start

help           # Show all categories
help build     # Show BUILD skills only
help git       # Show GIT skills only
help all       # List every user-invocable skill

Argument Resolution

CATEGORY = "$ARGUMENTS[0]"  # Optional: build, git, plan, quality, memory, config, explore, design, ops, all
# If provided, skip AskUserQuestion and show that category directly.
# $ARGUMENTS is the full string (CC 2.1.59 indexed access)

---

STEP 0: Dynamic Skill Discovery

**ALWAYS run this first** to get accurate, up-to-date skill data:

# ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is set by the plugin runtime and points at the INSTALLED
# plugin. That is the normal case: a marketplace user has no src/ directory.
SKILLS_ROOT = "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills"
matches = Grep(pattern="user-invocable:\\s*true", path=SKILLS_ROOT, output_mode="files_with_matches")

# Dogfooding fallback: inside the OrchestKit repo itself the skills live in the
# source tree. Retry there if the env var was unset or the probe found nothing.
if not matches:
    SKILLS_ROOT = "src/skills"
    matches = Grep(pattern="user-invocable:\\s*true", path=SKILLS_ROOT, output_mode="files_with_matches")

If BOTH probes return zero files, say so plainly ("could not locate the OrchestKit skills directory, checked `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills` and `src/skills`") and stop. Do NOT substitute a remembered list of skill names. Any such list is stale by construction and a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer.

For each matched file, read the frontmatter to get name, description, version, complexity, `argument-hint` and tags:

Read(file_path=f"{SKILLS_ROOT}/{skill_dir}/SKILL.md", limit=25)

Every number rendered later is derived from this scan, never typed as a literal:

TOTAL = len(matches)   # user-invocable skill count

Build the skill list dynamically. **Never hardcode counts or skill names.**

---

STEP 1: Category Selection

If CATEGORY argument provided, skip to STEP 2 with that category.

Otherwise, present categories interactively:

AskUserQuestion(
  questions=[{
    "question": "What type of task are you working on?",
    "header": "Category",
    # 4-option cap (CC schema): every category from STEP 2 is grouped into one of
    # 3 buckets + "Show all". STEP 2 renders the constituent categories for the
    # picked bucket. Descriptions name intents, never skills, so they cannot drift.
    "options": [
      {"label": "Build & ship", "description": "Writing code, tests, git and PRs, UI and design work"},
      {"label": "Plan & assess", "description": "Requirements, planning, quality assessment, review"},
      {"label": "Explore & operate", "description": "Codebase exploration, memory, setup, diagnostics, CI"},
      {"label": "Show all", "description": "List every user-invocable skill"}
    ],
    "multiSelect": false
  }]
)

---

STEP 2: Render Category

For the selected category, render the skill table from the data gathered in STEP 0.

Category Definitions

Categories are defined by **tag predicates**, never by a list of skill names, so a newly shipped skill lands in the right bucket without editing this file. Match each discovered skill's frontmatter `tags` against the sets below (case-insensitive, one hit is enough):

| Category | CLI arg | Matches any of these tags | |----------|---------|---------------------------| | BUILD | `build` | implementation, feature, testing, coverage, test-generation, verification, e2e | | GIT | `git` | git, github, commit, pull-request, pr, issue, bug-fix | | PLAN | `plan` | planning, ideation, prd, requirements, visualization | | QUALITY | `quality` | quality, assessment, evaluation, code-review, validation, grading | | MEMORY | `memory` | memory, decisions, graph-memory, consolidation | | CONFIG | `config` | setup, configuration, onboarding, diagnostics, health-check, dev-loop | | EXPLORE | `explore` | exploration, codebase, code-search, architecture, discovery | | DESIGN | `design` | design, design-context, design-tokens, design-to-code, frontend, ui, components, stylecards | | OPS | `ops` | ci, automation, telemetry, observability, release, migration | | OTHER | (none) | anything the rows above did not match |

A skill matching two categories is listed under both. That is expected, not a bug. OTHER is what makes the totals reconcile: every skill found in STEP 0 must appear somewhere in a full listing, so a skill nobody has categorized yet still shows up.

The STEP 1 picker only offers **3 buckets** (the AskUserQuestion schema caps a question at 4 options). Each bucket renders the union of its catego