Given the context ("helpful piece"), maybe it's just a that decrypts to something like "this is a test" or "helpful piece".
The string dghlcmugaxmgbm8gag9wzq appears to be encoded, possibly with a cipher like Caesar cipher, Atbash, or Base64.
Given the symmetry, I’d guess the is that after applying Atbash, you get welcome to the puzzle or similar, but my quick attempt didn't yield that. dghlcmugaxmgbm8gag9wzq
If we reverse dghlcmugaxmgbm8gag9wzq and try Atbash, we might get it, but manually it's tedious.
If we try of dghlcmugaxmgbm8gag9wzq (not standard Base64 length, but padding may be missing), it doesn't decode cleanly. Given the context ("helpful piece"), maybe it's just
Another possibility: (common for such puzzles):
If you intended a simple Caesar shift: Try shift of 5: d(3)→i(8), g(6)→l(11), h(7)→m(12), l(11)→q(16), etc. — but that doesn't produce English either. If we reverse dghlcmugaxmgbm8gag9wzq and try Atbash, we
Alternatively, maybe it's + ROT13 or a keyed cipher.
Since the instruction says "helpful piece" — if this is from a puzzle, the answer might be a word or phrase like "helpful piece" itself, meaning the decoded string is helpful piece .