esp32s3-rlcd42

esp32s3-rlcd42 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexex1993/mcu-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (7,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Firmware-development guidance for a specific Waveshare board built around an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, reflective monochrome display, audio hardware, microphones, and sensors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or troubleshoot firmware for the ESP32-S3-RLCD-4.2 board, including its display, audio, storage, sleep, USB console, and GPIO connections.
Why use it?
It documents the board's hardware limits, pin mappings, power behavior, display details, and recovery paths so firmware work is based on the actual device.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to write or troubleshoot firmware for the ESP32-S3-RLCD-4.2 board, including its display, audio, storage, sleep, USB console, and GPIO connections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexex1993/mcu-skills/esp32s3-rlcd42
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32s3-rlcd42
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexex1993/mcu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin esp32s3-rlcd42 — /plugin install esp32s3-rlcd42 after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,462 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 $0.00000 $0.07462
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.02985
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.01492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00746

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3cd2a02a07c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

esp32s3-rlcd42 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (template/variants/new-project.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/esp32/esp32s3-rlcd42/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Waveshare ESP32-S3-RLCD-4.2

A 4.2" reflective panel with no backlight, an audio front end, four I2C slaves and an 18650, on an N16R8 module — and four free GPIOs on the header when you are done.

Two things shape almost every task here. First, the panel is 1 bpp and reflective: a full frame is 15,000 bytes, it holds its image with the SoC asleep, and it is invisible in the dark. Second, the board has no UART bridge chip and no user LED — the single Type-C socket is the S3's native USB, so if the console flags are wrong there is no fallback route and no LED to blink. A board that "does nothing" is usually a board that is running fine and cannot tell you.

  • reference/board-hardware.md — the board: the vendor's "Interface Introduction" GPIO table transcribed and corrected, the full 2×8 header with the four trap positions, the display/audio/storage/power sections, console and recovery, flash layout, and a symptom → cause → fix table.
  • reference/esp32s3-soc.md — the silicon: which GPIOs do not exist, strapping semantics, ADC1/ADC2 and touch maps, power-up glitches, memory map and PSRAM addressing, deep sleep and RTC wake pins.
  • reference/esp32-family.md — the rest of the family, for "should this be a different ESP32?" questions.
  • reference/recipes.md — code that builds: platformio.ini, USB console, ST7305 bring-up and HPM/LPM, the I2C bus with SHTC3 and PCF85063A drivers, battery, SDMMC, the audio pin/parameter reference, deep sleep.
  • template/ — a project that builds clean, in two variants, plus a scaffold script. See template/README.md.

Confirm the board first

Waveshare sells several 4.2" ESP32 boards whose pin maps do not port. Check two things:

This board Not this board
Panel reflective, monochrome, no backlight, 300×400, ST7305/ST7306 over SPI ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-4.3 (parallel RGB, colour, capacitive touch); any e-Paper board
Sockets one Type-C, an 18650 holder on the back, a 2×8 header, a TF slot boards with two USB-C, or a UART bridge chip near the socket

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 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 · 381 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3cd2a02a07c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

esp32s3-rlcd42 is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexex1993/mcu-skills (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,462 tokens. 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 2026-09-11.

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