I have an actor I'm spawning, I would like him to equip a helm, but I don't want to use an outfit because I want it to show up in his inventory (so it can be removed if desired). I could go an specify each item in the leveled list and check if he has it in his inventory, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the leveled list. I haven't been able to find a way to have papyrus compare the contents of the list to my actors inventory. So does anyone know how I could accomplish this? Or is there a way to make outfits show up in the actors inventory (the easier option but as far as I know there isn't)?

If you check the box "use all" in the leveled list creation form all the items in the list will be in the NPC inventory.

Sorry, its a leveled list of helmets, I only want to equip 1 of them, I just don't want to use an outfit because I want the helmets to show in my actors inventory so that they can be removed if the player doesn't want the actor to wear a helmet (the actor is a follower)