# Help

Route a "how do I use Codewhale" question to the installed help, config, and doctor...

- Repository: https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale (41164 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill help -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill help -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill help -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill help -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## 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.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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:

1. **Slash commands**, `/help` lists 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.
2. **Skills**, `/skills` opens the manager, `/skills inspect` prints the
   discovery mode, searched directories, and source paths. `/skill <name>`
   activates one. See `docs/SKILLS.md` in a Codewhale checkout.
3. **Configuration**, `/config` is the live settings surface. Config file
   keys are documented in `docs/CONFIGURATION.md`; provider/model routing in
   `docs/PROVIDERS.md`.
4. **Keybindings**, `docs/KEYBINDINGS.md` in a checkout. There is no
   keybinding slash command; do not invent one.
5. **Environment problems**, `codewhale-tui doctor` reports the resolved
   config path, provider credential presence (never values), and workspace
   state. Prefer its output over inference.

The rest: https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale/blob/HEAD/crates/skills/assets/skills/help/SKILL.md