vb6-utilities

vb6-utilities is a skill for Claude Code from alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills. It costs 185 tokens per session (2,959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference catalogue of utility functions commonly found in shared Visual Basic 6 modules. Visual Basic 6 is an older language and development environment used by many existing Windows applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing VB6 code that handles database NULL values, SQL formatting, string cleanup, message boxes, accents, or other shared utilities.
Why use it?
It helps developers find an existing helper before creating a duplicate with different behavior or naming.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-vb6-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when editing VB6 code that handles database NULL values, SQL formatting, string cleanup, message boxes, accents, or other shared utilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills/vb6-utilities
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills --skill vb6-utilities
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vb6-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,959 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 $0.00185 $0.02959
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.01479
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00296

Measured 11d ago against content hash efd8a71a0d61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vb6-utilities 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 11d 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/vb6-utilities/SKILL.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VB6 Utilities Catalog

VB6 codebases typically maintain a shared utility module (commonly named modUtils, modFuncoes, modCommon, or similar) that accumulates helpers over years of development. Before writing a utility function from scratch, check whether one already exists.

This catalog describes the functions you are most likely to find. Names and exact signatures vary per project; the names below are representative of the patterns to look for.

Conventions

fg_ prefix — "function global"

Many codebases use the fg_ prefix for stateless utility functions exposed project-wide. Examples: fg_isNull, fg_Coalesce, fg_InIDE. When you see this prefix, treat the function as part of the utility layer — reusable, side-effect-free, safe to call from anywhere.

Dialog wrappers — MsgBoxXxx

Most projects wrap MsgBox to integrate with logging, theming, and consistent button layouts. Typical names: MsgBoxCritical, MsgBoxInfo, MsgBoxWarning, MsgBoxQuestion, MsgBoxOption. Use the wrapper, not raw MsgBox.

1. NULL handling

fg_isNull(value, defaultValue) As Variant

Returns defaultValue when value is Null, otherwise returns value. Equivalent to SQL's ISNULL or COALESCE with one fallback.

strName = fg_isNull(rs("custName").Value, "")
lngCount = fg_isNull(rs("total").Value, 0)

fg_Coalesce(value1, value2, ...) As Variant

Returns the first non-Null value in the list, or Null if all are Null.

strContact = fg_Coalesce(strPhone, strMobile, strEmail, "no contact")

fg_NullIf(value, valueIfEqual) As Variant

Returns the string "Null" (for SQL literal use) when value matches valueIfEqual, otherwise returns value. Used when building SQL strings manually.

fg_NullIfDB(value, valueIfEqual) As Variant

Returns actual Null (not the string "Null") when value matches valueIfEqual, otherwise returns value. Used when assigning to ADO parameter values.

2. SQL literal formatting (legacy)

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 369 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A efd8a71a0d61

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vb6-utilities is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexcassol/claude-vb6-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 2,959 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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