block-scalar-skill

block-scalar-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alinotfoundbtw/sounding. It costs 100 tokens per session (170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for understanding YAML block scalars, which let several lines of text be stored as one value. It explains how to read that syntax correctly in skill metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing or learning skills that contain multi-line YAML fields.
Why use it?
It prevents valid multi-line text from being mistaken for broken YAML. That helps avoid incorrect reports about a skill’s structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when reviewing or learning skills that contain multi-line YAML fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alinotfoundbtw/sounding/block-scalar-skill
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 alinotfoundbtw/sounding --skill block-scalar-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alinotfoundbtw/sounding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for block-scalar-skill

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alinotfoundbtw/sounding/block-scalar-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alinotfoundbtw/sounding/block-scalar-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 170 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 $0.00100 $0.00170
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00085
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00017

Measured 7d ago against content hash 72236cbda809, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

block-scalar-skill 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 7d 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.

examples/skills/block-scalar-skill/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Block scalar skill

Frontmatter here uses a YAML block scalar, which a third of real skills do.

  1. Parse the block correctly
  2. Do not report its body as broken syntax
example
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. 7d ago First seen · 28 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 72236cbda809

Subscribe to this mod's changes

block-scalar-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository alinotfoundbtw/sounding (4 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 170 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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