blocklet-getting-started

blocklet-getting-started is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArcBlock/agent-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive guide for people starting development in ArcBlock's Blocklet ecosystem. It asks what they want to build and uses that answer to guide them through the relevant setup choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between blocklet and server development setup, move an existing environment, understand convention-based folders, and explore advanced uses.
Why use it?
It helps beginners who do not yet know the ecosystem's terminology or which development environment they need.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the blocklet plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install blocklet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,696 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00082 $0.02696
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01348
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00270

Measured 3d ago against content hash b5d7aa3e3280, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blocklet-getting-started 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 3d 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/blocklet/skills/blocklet-getting-started/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blocklet Getting Started

An interactive Q&A guide for developers who are new to ArcBlock's Blocklet ecosystem and don't know what questions to ask.

Core Philosophy

"Guide through questions, answer from skills."

This skill maintains a curated list of questions. When user selects a question, AI reads the relevant skill files in plugins/blocklet/skills/ to understand the context and provide accurate answers.

"If users knew what to ask, they wouldn't need this skill."

Users who know their questions can ask AI directly. This skill is for those who need guided discovery.


Workflow

Phase 0: Language Selection

First, use AskUserQuestion to determine the user's preferred language:

Which language do you prefer? / 请选择您的语言 / 言語を選択してください

Options:
A. English
B. 中文 (Chinese)
C. 日本語 (Japanese)

After user selects a language, ALL subsequent communication must be in that language.


Phase 1: Present Questions (Loop)

Use AskUserQuestion to present questions.

Due to UI constraints (max 4 options), present 3 questions + 1 special option:

  • 3 questions from different categories (maximize user choice)
  • "Start my first environment setup" - Redirect to /blocklet-dev-setup or /blocklet-server-dev-setup

After answering each question, return to Phase 1 and present the next set of questions (pick different ones).


Question Catalog

Questions are organized by category. When presenting questions, pick 3 from different categories to give variety. Track which questions have been asked to avoid repetition.

Category: Getting Started (GS)

ID Question Answer Source
GS-1 What's the difference between developing a Blocklet vs developing Blocklet Server? Read blocklet-dev-setup/SKILL.md and blocklet-server-dev-setup/SKILL.md, compare their purposes
GS-2 Which skill should I use to start development? Analyze user's goal, recommend blocklet-dev-setup or blocklet-server-dev-setup
GS-3 What is the complete development workflow from setup to PR? Read blocklet-dev-setup/SKILL.md Phase 1-7, blocklet-pr/SKILL.md
GS-4 What prerequisites do I need before starting? Read blocklet-dev-setup/SKILL.md Phase 0 and Phase 3
GS-5 How do I know if my environment is ready? Read blocklet-dev-setup/SKILL.md Phase 3 (Prerequisites Check)

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 3d ago First seen · 204 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A b5d7aa3e3280

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blocklet-getting-started is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArcBlock/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,696 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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