transpose

transpose is a skill for Claude Code from GuitarAlchemist/ga. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,564 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A music tool that moves a chord symbol up or down by a named interval, such as a perfect fourth. It uses a deterministic calculation to preserve the correct note spellings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with changing a chord or progression to a different key while keeping chord names correctly spelled.
Why use it?
It avoids common mistakes when transposing chords into less familiar keys, where enharmonic spellings such as D-flat and C-sharp can be confused.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps with changing a chord or progression to a different key while keeping chord names correctly spelled.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guitaralchemist/ga/transpose
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,564 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 $0.00077 $0.01564
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00782
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00156

Measured 9d ago against content hash e4c661255b95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transpose 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/transpose/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transpose a Chord

When a user asks to transpose a chord by an interval (or to move it into a different key), call ga_dsl_eval with closure name domain.transposeChord. Do NOT compute the transposition mentally — for less-common keys (Gb major, C# minor) the LLM will confidently flip enharmonics and produce wrong spellings.

Why this skill uses ga_dsl_eval (not a keyhole tool)

This is the first canary for the DSL-eval pattern. Instead of one MCP tool per gap, we call the existing domain.transposeChord closure through the universal ga_dsl_eval entry point. The closure is registered in GaClosureRegistry and exposed only because its category is Domain (per docs/contracts/2026-05-06-ga-dsl-eval-contract.md v0.1).

Calling the tool

Method: ga_dsl_eval

Args (flat key-value, all values as strings):

  • closureName = "domain.transposeChord"
  • args.symbol — the chord symbol, e.g. "Cmaj7", "F#m", "Bb7".
  • args.semitones — integer string. Positive = up, negative = down. Convert from interval names using the table below.

Example invocation:

ga_dsl_eval(closureName: "domain.transposeChord",
            args: { "symbol": "Cmaj7", "semitones": "5" })

Returns a DslEvalResult. Read Result for the new chord symbol (e.g. "Fmaj7"); on failure, read Error.Code and Error.Message.

Interval → semitones table

Use this to convert the user's phrasing into the semitones arg. Direction "up" = positive; "down" = negative.

Interval Semitones Common phrasings
unison / P1 0 "no change", "same root"
minor 2nd / m2 / half step 1 "up a half step", "by a semitone"
major 2nd / M2 / whole step 2 "up a whole step", "by two semitones"
minor 3rd / m3 3 "up a minor third", "by three semitones"
major 3rd / M3 4 "up a major third"
perfect 4th / P4 5 "up a perfect fourth", "by a fourth"
tritone / TT / dim 5 / aug 4 6 "by a tritone"
perfect 5th / P5 7 "up a perfect fifth", "by a fifth"
minor 6th / m6 8 "up a minor sixth"
major 6th / M6 9 "up a major sixth"
minor 7th / m7 10 "up a minor seventh"
major 7th / M7 11 "up a major seventh"
octave / P8 12 "up an octave"

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A e4c661255b95

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transpose is a skill published in the GitHub repository GuitarAlchemist/ga (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,564 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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