MAGS Help

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Displays a complete quick-reference card of all MAGS slash commands, auto-activating skills, agents, and hooks. It also checks whether project documents exist and presents a quick start guide tailored to that status. Useful for getting an overview of MAGS capabilities or when you need to remember available commands.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentBeginner
706/2/2026
Claude Code
#mags#help#command-reference#documentation#quick-start

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Our review

Displays a comprehensive overview of all available MAGS commands, skills, agents, and hooks.

Strengths

  • Provides a structured overview of the MAGS ecosystem
  • Lists all 10 slash commands with descriptions
  • Shows 7 auto-activating skills and 2 agents
  • Includes a context-aware quick start guide

Limitations

  • Does not offer detailed help for individual commands
  • Does not cover advanced MAGS configuration
  • Links to full documentation are static
When to use it

Use this skill when you are new to MAGS or need a quick reminder of what capabilities are available.

When not to use it

Avoid it if you need in-depth help on a specific command; refer to the dedicated documentation instead.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill only displays a static help text and makes a safe MCP call to list documents. There are no destructive, exfiltrating, or obfuscated actions, no shell execution, and no network requests other than the allowed MCP tool.

No concerns found

Examples

Show MAGS help
Show me all MAGS commands and skills.
Quick start guidance
What can I do with MAGS? Give me an overview.
List available agents and hooks
List all MAGS agents and hooks.

name: mags-help description: Show all available MAGS commands, skills, agents, and hooks at a glance version: 1.0.0 user-invocable: true allowed-tools:

  • mcp__mags_mags__mags_list_docs

MAGS Help

Display a complete quick-reference of everything MAGS offers.

Steps

1. Display the reference

Present the following reference card directly (no tool calls needed for this step):

== MAGS Quick Reference ==

SLASH COMMANDS (10)
  /mags-help              Show this reference card
  /mags-init              Initialize MAGS for your project
  /mags-status            Project dashboard (docs health, memory, next steps)
  /mags-docs              List all project documents
  /mags-docs-create <t>   Create document from template
  /mags-docs-validate     Run document validation checks
  /mags-docs-search <q>   Search across all documents
  /mags-changelog         Generate changelog from git history
  /mags-setup             Recommend Claude Code configuration
  /mags-legacy            Initialize MAGS for a legacy/brownfield project

AUTO-ACTIVATING SKILLS (7)
  These activate automatically when Claude detects a relevant context:
  - doc-management        Creating or editing project documentation
  - memory-guidance       Storing decisions, conventions, or session context
  - claude-md-management  Working with CLAUDE.md configuration
  - testing-strategy      Planning tests, coverage targets, test pyramid
  - security-review       Security audits, OWASP, threat modeling
  - infrastructure        DevOps, CI/CD, containers, monitoring
  - api-lifecycle         API design, versioning, deprecation

AGENTS (2)
  - doc-sync-validator    Checks if documentation matches actual code
  - setup-recommender     Recommends plugins, skills, and hooks for your stack

HOOKS (1 — automatic, no action needed)
  - SessionStart          Loads project summary on startup

2. Show quick start

Call mags_list_docs to check if any documents exist.

If no documents exist, show:

QUICK START
  1. /mags-init           → Scan docs or scaffold from templates
  2. Tell Claude a decision → "We use JWT for auth" — auto-saved to memory
  3. /mags-status         → See your project dashboard

If documents exist, show:

QUICK START
  You're all set! Try:
  → /mags-status          See project dashboard
  → /mags-docs-validate   Check documentation health
  → "What's next?"        Get recommended next steps

3. Link to full documentation

End with:

DOCUMENTATION
  → Getting Started:      docs/getting-started.md
  → Commands Reference:   docs/commands-reference.md
  → Skills Reference:     docs/skills-reference.md
  → MCP Tools Reference:  docs/tools-reference.md
  → Configuration:        docs/configuration.md

Do not take any further action unless the user asks.

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