voicing-search

voicing-search is a skill for Claude Code from GuitarAlchemist/ga. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for finding playable guitar chord voicings from a 313,000-voicing index. It matches chords, modes, and styles using musical and fretboard characteristics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find fingerings for chords such as Cmaj7, voicings for modes such as Lydian, or alternatives similar to a specified voicing.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search through guitar shapes manually when looking for a particular sound or playing style.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to find fingerings for chords such as Cmaj7, voicings for modes such as Lydian, or alternatives similar to a specified voicing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guitaralchemist/ga/voicing-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,814 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 $0.00101 $0.01814
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00181

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3e21e72709e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voicing-search 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.

.claude/skills/voicing-search/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.

Retrieval over a 313,000-voicing corpus using musical geometry, not text embeddings. The index is a pre-built 112-dim OPTK v4 mmap file; similarity is weighted partition cosine across STRUCTURE (pitch-class invariants), MORPHOLOGY (fretboard geometry), CONTEXT (harmonic function), SYMBOLIC (technique/style tags), and MODAL (mode flavor) partitions.

When to Use

  • User names a chord and wants playable fingerings: "show me Cmaj7 voicings", "drop-2 Dm7", "rootless G7 shapes".
  • User asks for voicings in a mode or style: "Lydian on guitar", "jazz voicings", "shell voicings".
  • User wants similar-sounding alternatives: "voicings with a similar quality to F#m7b5".

When NOT to Use

  • Pure music theory questions ("what's a Lydian mode?") — use TheoryAgent or the GaScaleByName tool.
  • Chord progression analysis ("what key is C-F-G?") — use GaKeyFromProgression.
  • Purely descriptive queries without any chord/mode/tag ("something warm and dreamy"). The typed extractor returns empty; search yields arbitrary results. Ask the user to name a chord or style first.

How to Call

Before the first search this session, call ga_voicing_vocabulary once — it returns the canonical lists of modes, chord-quality suffixes, roots, and style/technique tags that the search tool understands. Cache the result for the rest of the session. When the user's query uses descriptive language ("warm", "jazzy", "moody") or non-canonical phrasing, map their words to the returned tags client-side before calling search. That keeps retrieval fully deterministic — the search tool has zero LLM dependency.

Example flow:

  • User: "something jazzy in F minor for a ballad"
  • You call ga_voicing_vocabulary once (if not yet cached). See "jazz" is a canonical tag.
  • You formulate ga_search_voicings { query: "Fm jazz" } — canonical tokens only.
  • Retrieval returns Fm voicings ranked by OPTIC-K musical geometry + jazz-tag boost.

Canonical-form gotchas found in live testing (2026-04-18):

  • drop2 does NOT match — use drop-2-voicings (dashes, plural). Same for drop-3-voicings.
  • shell DOES substring-match shell-voicing — partial match works on this one.
  • rootless is its own canonical tag (not rootless-voicing).
  • Register hints like register:high, register:mid, register:low exist and are useful for "voicings that sit high on the neck" type queries.
  • Many mood words ARE canonical: dreamy, melancholy, bright, soulful, aggressive, tense, resonant, stable, sad. Call ga_voicing_vocabulary once to see the full list before guessing.
  • Famous-chord names are indexed: hendrix-chord, mystic-chord, petrushka-chord, james-bond-chord, blackbird-chord, tristan-chord, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 3e21e72709e1

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voicing-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository GuitarAlchemist/ga (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,814 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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