Role Help

by wasabeef

Role Help is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wasabeef in claude-code-cookbook.

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Install Role Help

Copy Role Help into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook/tree/main/plugins/en/skills/role-help ~/.claude/skills/role-help

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/en/skills/role-help/SKILL.md in wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/role-help
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Role Help does

Role Help guides users in choosing the right Claude Code role for their situation, covering security, architecture, performance, frontend, mobile, review, QA, and multi-role comparisons.

Role Help is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Role Help comes from a repository tagged claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Guide for choosing the right role

A selection guide and help system when you're unsure which role to use.

Usage

/role-help                      # General role selection guide
/role-help <situation/problem>  # Recommended roles for specific situations
/role-help compare <Role 1>,<Role 2> # Compare roles

Basic Examples

# General guidance
/role-help
→ List of available roles and their characteristics

# Situation-specific recommendation
/role-help "Concerned about API security"
→ Recommendation and usage of security role

# Role comparison
/role-help compare frontend,mobile
→ Differences and appropriate usage between frontend and mobile roles

Situation-Based Role Selection Guide

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Role Help provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/role-help
/role
/multi-role
/role-debate
/smart-review

Frequently asked about Role Help

What else does wasabeef publish alongside Role Help?
Role Help is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Dependencies, Analyze Performance and Check Fact. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Role Help does, and is maintained by wasabeef in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook page.
How does Role Help compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Role Help ranks #1244 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Role Help against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.