output-blocks

output-blocks is a skill for Claude Code from drayline/rootnode-skills. It costs 178 tokens per session (2,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A collection of tested formats for structuring an AI assistant's answer. It helps retrieve, review, customize, or create a specific deliverable layout, such as a decision matrix or executive brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a fixed report, template, brief, matrix, or other defined response structure.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about how to ask for a particular answer shape. This makes outputs easier to read, compare, and reuse.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rootnode-prompts plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need a fixed report, template, brief, matrix, or other defined response structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drayline/rootnode-skills/output-blocks
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 drayline/rootnode-skills --skill output-blocks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drayline/rootnode-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rootnode-prompts, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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 output-blocks

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,034 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 unknown 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 $0.00178 $0.02034
Opus 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00814
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00203

Measured 3d ago against content hash a332146d391e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

output-blocks 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/rootnode-prompts/skills/output-blocks/SKILL.md · 132 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed · +1 lines a332146d391e
  2. 4d ago First seen · 131 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 3822e557efe4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

output-blocks is a skill published in the GitHub repository drayline/rootnode-skills (40 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 2,034 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-11-03.

Related

output-blocks compared with skills from other repositories

output-blocks next to 6 skills from other repositories
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output-blocksdrayline/rootnode-skillsSkill404d agononeA178Claude Code
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android-developmenttravisjneuman/.claudeSkill1072d agoMITA33Claude Code, Codex
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authentication-patternstravisjneuman/.claudeSkill1072d agoMITA28Claude Code, Codex