blocklet

blocklet is a skill for Claude Code from ArcBlock/agent-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line skill for discovering, creating, validating, and inspecting ARC blocklets. A blocklet is an installable ARC application made from a manifest and optional pages or agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list recipes, explain a recipe, scaffold a blocklet, inspect an existing package, and check it against its expected structure. It can also inspect blocklets available in a live ARC instance.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to work with blocklet recipes and local packages without reading the whole monorepo. Validation catches problems against a chosen recipe or profile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the arc plugin — 7 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to list recipes, explain a recipe, scaffold a blocklet, inspect an existing package, and check it against its expected structure. It can also inspect blocklets available in a live ARC instance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arcblock/agent-skills/blocklet
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 ArcBlock/agent-skills --skill blocklet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArcBlock/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 775 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 $0.00027 $0.00775
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00310
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00077

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8daaed2fd5a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blocklet 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.

plugins/arc/skills/blocklet/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ARC skill: blocklet

Blocklets are installable AFS apps (manifest + optional AUP pages/agents). This booklet is L0 — verify flags with arc blocklet <cmd> --help.

Discover (always start here)

arc --help
arc blocklet --help
arc blocklet recipe list
arc blocklet recipe explain <name>   # e.g. basic | blog | agent | minimal-app
arc blocklet list [dir]              # local packages under dir (or cwd)
arc blocklet inspect <path|ref>
arc blocklet check <dir>             # validate against recipe/profile

After a daemon is up (arc skill show daemon) — add --instance <name> to every arc afs call below unless you're on the default instance (arc skill show afs covers this):

arc afs ls /blocklets --instance <name>          # live catalog when mounted
arc afs ls /registry/blocklets --instance <name> # registry entries if present
arc afs explain /blocklets --instance <name>
# WM: open a running blocklet in a surface
#   exec $WM/.actions/open-blocklet --args '{"blocklet":"<name>"}' --instance <name>
# Prefer: explain that action first

Scaffold (T5 minimal)

Use an empty isolated directory — never scaffold into the monorepo root.

mkdir -p /tmp/my-blocklet && cd /tmp/my-blocklet
arc blocklet create . --name my-blocklet --recipe basic
# basic → blocklet.yaml only (smallest green path)
# --name becomes the DID identifier: alphanumeric / hyphen / underscore only.
# Omitting it derives one from the directory basename, and `create` REFUSES
# (exit 5) rather than write a DID `blocklet build` would reject (arc#6281).

arc blocklet check .
arc blocklet build .
# → dist/ with .afs/manifest.json + blocklet.dist.json

Richer recipes (need more files; still offline-capable):

Recipe What you get
basic / blank manifest only
blog AUP blog pages
agent AI chat + agent
minimal-app web + aup + agent + settings
agent-workspace workspace-shaped app
support-community support-community shell

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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 · 91 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8daaed2fd5a4

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blocklet is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArcBlock/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 775 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-14.

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