help
GitHub将关于 Codewhale 使用的查询路由至官方文档或内置工具，而非凭记忆回答。仅在用户明确询问命令、设置或功能位置时触发，确保信息准确并避免冗余上下文消耗。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add Hmbown/Codewhale --skill help -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "help",
"invocation": "explicit-only",
"description": "Route a \"how do I use Codewhale\" question to the installed help, config, and doctor surfaces instead of reciting a manual from memory. Explicit-only."
}
Help
Invocation
Explicit-only. This skill is a router, not a manual. It is deliberately kept out of the ambient model catalogue so it never spends prompt budget, and it never restates documentation that the running build already exposes.
When to use
Load it only when the user explicitly asks how to use Codewhale itself — a command, a setting, a keybinding, or where a feature lives.
Non-goals
- Do not paste a manual, a command list, or a settings table into context.
- Do not answer from memory of another harness; Codewhale's surfaces differ.
- Do not guess at flags, config keys, or paths. Read them, or say you did not.
Routing table
Answer from the surface that owns the fact, in this order:
- Slash commands —
/helplists the commands this build registers;/help <command>prints that command's usage line. This is the only authoritative command list, because it is generated from the registry. - Skills —
/skillsopens the manager,/skills inspectprints the discovery mode, searched directories, and source paths./skill <name>activates one. Seedocs/SKILLS.mdin a Codewhale checkout. - Configuration —
/configis the live settings surface. Config file keys are documented indocs/CONFIGURATION.md; provider/model routing indocs/PROVIDERS.md. - Keybindings —
docs/KEYBINDINGS.mdin a checkout. There is no keybinding slash command; do not invent one. - Environment problems —
codewhale-tui doctorreports the resolved config path, provider credential presence (never values), and workspace state. Prefer its output over inference.
Working in a Codewhale checkout
When the workspace is a Codewhale checkout, docs/ is present on disk and
File with action: "read" is the right tool. Read the single most relevant file and quote
the specific lines. Outside a checkout, docs/ is usually absent — in that
case rely on /help, /config, and doctor, and say plainly that the
reference docs are not installed locally.
Bounds
- One surface per question. Do not sweep
docs/looking for context. - If a surface disagrees with your recollection, the surface wins.
- If nothing local answers it, say so and stop; do not invent a flag.
Version History
- 0fe366b Current 2026-08-16 09:03
