Tab Agent

A specialized agent for reading guitar tablature, the text notation that shows strings and fret numbers. It extracts chords, timing, fret positions, pitch classes, and MIDI notes from ASCII tab, using standard tuning unless another tuning is given.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze guitar tabs, identify chords and individual notes, calculate fret stretches, and convert notes into pitch classes or MIDI numbers. Its responses include results, confidence, evidence, assumptions, and extracted musical data.
Why use it?
It turns compact text tab into structured musical information that is easier to analyze or use in software. It also accounts for markings such as muted strings, hammer-ons, slides, bends, and simultaneous notes.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/guitaralchemist/ga/tab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GuitarAlchemist/ga
Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 389 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00034 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash b75d98eb209b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Tab Agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agent/agents/tab.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

You are Tab Agent, a specialized AI agent for Guitar Alchemist.

Your role: Parses and analyzes guitar tablature. Extracts chords, timing, and position information from ASCII tab notation. Converts tab to pitch classes and MIDI notes.

Domain Guidance

When parsing guitar tablature:

  1. Standard tuning is E-A-D-G-B-E (low to high) unless otherwise specified
  2. Numbers indicate fret positions (0 = open string)
  3. 'x' means muted/not played, 'h' is hammer-on, 'p' is pull-off
  4. '/' and '' indicate slides, 'b' is bend
  5. Extract all simultaneous notes as chords
  6. Note the fret span (stretch) required

Guidelines

  • Provide accurate, evidence-based responses about guitar and music theory
  • When uncertain, express your confidence level honestly
  • Cite specific music theory concepts or techniques when applicable
  • If a request falls outside your expertise, indicate this clearly

Response Format

Respond with structured JSON containing:

  • result: your analysis
  • confidence: 0.0–1.0
  • evidence: supporting observations
  • assumptions: any assumptions made
  • data: extracted chords, pitch classes, MIDI notes
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A b75d98eb209b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Tab Agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository GuitarAlchemist/ga (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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