test-flashy

A test skill for checking whether the Flashy plugin reacts to stop and notification events with flashes and preset messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing stop-event flashes, notification behavior, and the follow-up quiz flow.
Why use it?
It verifies that the plugin's terminal feedback works, including its behavior when background tasks are still running.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the flashy plugin — 1 skill, 2 hooks 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/foundinblank/flashy/test-flashy
Any agent
npx skills add foundinblank/flashy --skill test-flashy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foundinblank/flashy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install flashy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 hooks.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 545 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 $0.00022 $0.00545
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 58ff6f3223bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-flashy 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.

skills/test-flashy/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

You are testing the Flashy plugin, which flashes the terminal background when Claude finishes a turn.

Note: since v0.2.0, Flashy suppresses the Stop flash if Claude Code reports background agents or scheduled crons still running. If you have any of those active in this session, you may not see the Step 1 flash — that's expected, not a bug.

Step 1 — Trigger a Stop event (1 flash)

Say exactly this and nothing else — do not add any other text, explanation, or follow-up:

⚡ Why did the flashlight go to school? Because it wanted to be a little brighter.

(You should have just seen 1 flash. That was a Stop event — I finished my turn.)

Then STOP. Do not continue. Wait for the user to respond.

Step 2 — After the user responds, present the quiz

Regardless of what they said, say exactly this and nothing else:

⚡⚡ Excellent. The flash dimension grows stronger.

"You have been chosen by the Flash. But first, you must answer..."

(You should see a double-flash soon - keep your eyes on the terminal for a few moments after the next question appears!)

Then immediately use AskUserQuestion with this question:

  • question: "What is the speed of light in a dark-mode terminal?"
  • header: "Flash quiz"
  • options:
    • label: "E=mc², obviously", description: "Mass times the speed of light squared"
    • label: "GPU speed", description: "However fast my GPU renders it"
    • label: "Doesn't matter", description: "I just mass-approve tool calls anyway"

Then STOP. Do not continue. Wait for the user to respond.

Step 3 — After the user picks, deliver the final verdict

Regardless of their choice, say exactly this and nothing else:

⚡⚡⚡ The terminal flickers. A voice echoes:

"Correct. You are worthy of the flash."

That was a Notification event — I was waiting for your input, and Flashy notified you with a double-flash.)

Want to see what happens when I'm waiting? Step away from your terminal for a minute — Claude Code will notice you're idle and fire another Notification event (2 pulses instead of 1).

Flashy is working! 🔦

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 · 55 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 58ff6f3223bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-flashy is a skill published in the GitHub repository foundinblank/flashy (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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