beginner-chords

beginner-chords is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GuitarAlchemist/ga. It costs 69 tokens per session (794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A beginner guitar-chord guide with diagrams and fingering tips for eight common open-position chords.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn C, G, D, A, E, Am, Em, and Dm chords and practise changing between them.
Why use it?
It gives new players a defined starting set instead of leaving them to choose shapes at random.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to learn C, G, D, A, E, Am, Em, and Dm chords and practise changing between them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guitaralchemist/ga/beginner-chords
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GuitarAlchemist/ga --skill beginner-chords
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GuitarAlchemist/ga

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 $0.00069 $0.00794
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00079

Measured 9d ago against content hash 78e2e0e8db27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beginner-chords 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 9d 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/beginner-chords/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Beginner Open-Position Guitar Chords

Use this catalog when a learner asks for the first chords to learn. Reproduce the eight diagrams verbatim and end with the practice tip in the final paragraph. Do not invent additional chord shapes or alter the fingering notes — those are pedagogically chosen and pre-validated.

Diagram conventions

Each diagram is six tokens, low-to-high (E A D G B e). 0 = open string, x = mute, otherwise the integer is the fret number. Tokens are separated by -.

The eight chords

  1. C majorx-3-2-0-1-0 — First-position major. Watch the muted low E.
  2. G major3-2-0-0-0-3 — Use ring/middle/pinky on E-A-e for cleaner switching to D.
  3. D majorx-x-0-2-3-2 — Compact triad — handy for "D shape" barre training later.
  4. A majorx-0-2-2-2-0 — Index/middle/ring on D-G-B; or barre with one finger across the 2nd fret.
  5. E major0-2-2-1-0-0 — Strongest, fullest open chord — every string rings.
  6. A minorx-0-2-2-1-0 — Same shape as E, moved one string up; bedrock minor sound.
  7. E minor0-2-2-0-0-0 — Easiest chord on the guitar — two fingers, six strings ringing.
  8. D minorx-x-0-2-3-1 — Compact like D major; good for swapping with C and G in folk songs.

Practice tip

Drill C ↔ G ↔ D ↔ Am ↔ Em as a smooth loop. Those five cover most folk, pop, and country songs in major keys. Add A, E, and Dm next.

Out of scope

  • Barre chords (F, B, Bm) — these are second-pass, not first-pass material.
  • Power chords / palm-muted shapes — those serve a different pedagogical track.
  • Tunings other than standard EADGBe — convert from this catalog rather than re-deriving.

Cross-reference

  • C# implementation: Common/GA.Business.ML/Agents/Skills/BeginnerChordsSkill.cs
  • Tests: Tests/Common/GA.Business.ML.Tests/Unit/BeginnerChordsSkillTests.cs
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. 9d ago First seen · 56 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 78e2e0e8db27

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beginner-chords is a skill published in the GitHub repository GuitarAlchemist/ga (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 794 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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