yaml

yaml is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dhaupin/vant. It costs 5 tokens per session (247 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to YAML, a text format commonly used for configuration files. It explains basic syntax, reusable YAML sections called anchors, and examples from Docker Compose and CI systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or understand YAML for Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and other configuration files.
Why use it?
It helps prevent formatting mistakes when writing configuration files that depend on indentation and specific syntax.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/dhaupin/vant/vant-skill-yaml
Any agent
npx skills add dhaupin/vant --skill vant-skill-yaml
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhaupin/vant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 yaml

README.md
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Per session 5 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 247 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 5.1 $0.00005 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash a07653f6bdc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yaml 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 2d 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.

models/public/skills/vant-skill-yaml/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

YAML

Data serialization.


When To Use

  • Config files
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions

What To Do

1. Syntax

key: value
number: 42
boolean: true
list:
  - item1
  - item2
object:
  nested: value

2. Anchors

defaults: &defaults
  adapter: postgres

development:
  <<: *defaults
  database: dev

3. Common Files

File Use
docker-compose.yml Docker
.github/workflows/*.yml CI/CD
.gitlab-ci.yml GitLab CI

4. Tools

# Validate
yamllint file.yml
python -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('f.yml'))"

Role: YAML Writer
Input: Data
Output: Config

Config files.

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. 2d ago First seen · 72 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A a07653f6bdc9

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yaml is a skill published in the GitHub repository dhaupin/vant (9 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 247 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.

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