templater

templater is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alecs5am/ralphy. It costs 333 tokens per session (6,330 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A project-decomposition tool that turns a finished project into reusable units for content, structure, visual style, recipes, and assets. It reads the project's unit files as the source of truth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish a polished project as a reproducible library of reusable templates, styles, recipes, and assets, or as a workspace bundle.
Why use it?
It prevents future agents from having to rediscover reusable parts by digging through raw project files. It also removes duplicate blocks when publishing the project to a library.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Not installable on its own: it reads a path above its own folder, which only exists inside its repository. The line is **Where this sits in the Unit lifecycle.** templater runs AFTER Unit formation (phase 17) in the canonical [Unit lifecycle](../../../docs/playbooks/unit-lifecyc.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 333 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00333 $0.06330
Opus 5 $0.00167 $0.03165
Sonnet 5 $0.00067 $0.01266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00633

Measured 6d ago against content hash b48352df9c4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

templater scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- **No `units/` but finished media exists** → DO NOT refuse. Surface the gap, suggest `ralphy unit create`, classify candidate blocks from the manifest anyway. (This is the #062 fix in spirit — never hard-block scenario-
.agents/skills/templater/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

templater

You decompose a finished project into the content-entity model (#063) and classify its pieces into reusable blocks. The contract is: a future agent should be able to reproduce the work — same units, same blocks (Template / Style / Recipe / Asset) — without re-deriving any of it from the raw artifacts/ dump.

Where this sits in the Unit lifecycle. templater runs AFTER Unit formation (phase 17) in the canonical Unit lifecycle — it reads each units/<slug>/unit.json. Only extract/publish a project whose Unit is polished: the render must have passed the native-video final gate (ralphy project status <id> --contractpolished === true, #411). A keyframe-only eval does not qualify.

Two exits: library entities vs workspace bundle

Reusable know-how leaves the repo through TWO distinct doors. Pick the door before running anything:

  • Project → library entities (THIS skill). The user wants the work browsable and reproducible per unit — "publish this to the library", "others should reproduce this style", "extract the blocks". Scope: ONE finished project, factored into Unit + Template/Style/Recipe/Asset blocks. The publishing implementation lives in the sibling ralphy-web repository.

DO NOT FIRE

  • Scaffolding a new project — that is ralphy template use <existing-slug>, not this skill.
  • One-off renders — that is the producer playbook.
  • Quality evaluation — that is /evaluator.
  • Pushing to the live library — that is the #056 publish path in ../ralphy-web/scripts/publish-entity.ts; templater stops at printing the ordered commands. See HARD INVARIANTS below.

This skill is the full maximal-detail pipeline: one invocation, followed end-to-end, reproduces what a careful maintainer does by hand. The six stages are EXTRACT (read the finished deliverables) → CLASSIFY (factor into the five entities, incl. the recipe-vs-tag split) → BLUEPRINT (capture a per-unit reproduction payload) → DE-DUP (match every candidate against the live library first) → EMIT the entity bundle → PRINT the publish runbook (the exact ordered publish-entity.ts commands).

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 227 lines · 333 tokens per session scan C b48352df9c4b

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templater is a skill published in the GitHub repository alecs5am/ralphy (129 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 333 tokens to every session and 6,330 once invoked, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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