scale-info

scale-info is a skill for Claude Code from GuitarAlchemist/ga. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A music tool that lists the seven notes in a major or minor key, along with its key signature and relative key. A key signature tells you which notes are normally sharp or flat in that key.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps musicians look up the notes and related key information for a specified major or minor key.
Why use it?
It avoids incorrectly recalling or spelling notes in less familiar keys.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps musicians look up the notes and related key information for a specified major or minor key.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guitaralchemist/ga/scale-info
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,100 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 $0.00041 $0.01100
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00110

Measured 9d ago against content hash d7958fe02e84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scale-info 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/scale-info/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Notes of a Major or Minor Key

When a user asks for the notes of a key (or scale), call the ga_scale_get_notes MCP tool. Do NOT recall the notes from training knowledge — different sources spell the same key differently (D# minor vs Eb minor) and the LLM will confidently produce wrong notes for less-common keys.

Calling the tool

The tool takes two arguments:

  • root — string, e.g. "C", "F#", "Bb". Case-insensitive.
  • mode"major" or "minor" (also accepts "maj" / "min").

It returns a structured result:

  • Notes — string array of seven note names in ascending order.
  • KeySignature — human-readable, e.g. "2 sharps" or "no sharps or flats".
  • RelativeKey — name of the relative major or minor.
  • Error — non-null only when the input could not be parsed.

Mapping user phrasings to arguments

  • "What notes are in C major?"root="C", mode="major".
  • "Show me the F# minor scale"root="F#", mode="minor".
  • "List the notes in Bb major"root="Bb", mode="major".
  • "What is D minor?" / "Tell me about D minor" → treat as a notes request: root="D", mode="minor".
  • "What's in the key of E?" — the user did not specify mode. Ask first rather than guessing: "E major or E minor?"

Phrasing the answer

Use the Notes array verbatim, joined with (en-dash) or commas. Add the KeySignature and RelativeKey as a separate sentence. Example:

The C major scale has 7 notes: C – D – E – F – G – A – B. Key signature: no sharps or flats. Relative minor: A minor.

If Error is non-null, surface the message verbatim and ask the user to clarify.

When to ask for clarification

  • User names a chord rather than a key: "what notes are in a C major chord" → that's a chord-intervals question; defer to the chord-info skill. Do NOT call ga_scale_get_notes.
  • User asks about modes (Dorian, Phrygian, etc.) other than major / minor — defer to the modes skill, which lists the seven major-scale modes with their degree formulas. ga_scale_get_notes itself only returns major or minor.
  • User asks for a scale other than the diatonic 7-note one (whole-tone, blues, pentatonic, harmonic minor): decline rather than fabricating notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d7958fe02e84

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scale-info is a skill published in the GitHub repository GuitarAlchemist/ga (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,100 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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