chat-user

chat-user is a skill for Claude Code from a554b554/Reactant. It costs 38 tokens per session (744 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A document-chat worker that answers a question written in a special Reactant tag and adds the answer beside that tag. Reactant is a document annotation system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer document-local questions in an annotated file and add one response block to the annotation layer.
Why use it?
It keeps document questions separate from ordinary chat and does not edit the original prose. It only runs after a router selects an exact unanswered tag.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the reactant plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to answer document-local questions in an annotated file and add one response block to the annotation layer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a554b554/reactant/chat-user
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add a554b554/Reactant --skill chat-user
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a554b554/Reactant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reactant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00744
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00298
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1adb5aaf6aa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chat-user 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 1mo 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.

skills/chat-user/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chat User

Activation Boundary

This is a tag-only worker skill, not the host's normal chat interface. Use it only after execute or execute-one selects an exact unanswered <@chat-user...> annotation and hands off its document chain. Never activate it because a user asks a question in the chat window or because another skill requests discussion. Without router handoff, append nothing.

Answer the user's document-local chat turn. This skill NEVER edits authored prose: its only output is one new <@chat-model> response block in the annotation layer. Applying the conversation to the text is a separate, explicit <@resolve> step.

Tags

The user writes a chat turn:

<@chat-user: question or request about the preceding text>

This skill replies with a paired block whose markers each occupy their own line:

<@chat-model name="exact-model-identifier-or-unknown">
multiline response
</@chat-model>

A chain may hold many turns: chat-user, chat-model, chat-user, chat-model, ... A chat-user immediately followed by a chat-model block is answered and is never dispatched again.

Input

  • File path — the document being processed.
  • The unanswered <@chat-user> tag — the turn to answer.
  • Chain history — all earlier chat-user/chat-model turns in this chain, in order. Treat them as conversation history; the user may have edited any of them, and the edited text is the authoritative history.
  • Preceding authored block — the text the chain discusses. Read the full file for broader context when useful.

Workflow

  1. Read the preceding authored block, the full chain history, and the new turn's prompt. Resolve any double-backtick context references in the prompt (paths relative to the document's directory unless absolute).
  2. Compose a response: a plan, critique, answer, or proposal, as the turn requests. Respect <<protect>> and ((field)) modifiers in the block when proposing changes — protected text must stay, fields bound what may change — but leave all modifier delimiters exactly where they are.
  3. Insert exactly one response block immediately after the unanswered <@chat-user> tag's line:
    • Opener: <@chat-model name="..."> on its own line, where name is the exact model identifier your host exposes, or unknown — never a guess.
    • Response text on the following lines. If any response line would consist exactly of </@chat-model>, escape it as \</@chat-model>.
    • Closer: </@chat-model> on its own line.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 1adb5aaf6aa3

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chat-user is a skill published in the GitHub repository a554b554/Reactant (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 744 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-10.

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