quarto

A set of rules for writing, editing, and rendering Quarto documents, which are Markdown files that can produce reports, presentations, and websites. It focuses on semantic structure and Quarto’s document syntax.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating Quarto reports, presentations, websites, notebooks, or other .qmd files, including rendering and previewing them.
Why use it?
It helps keep .qmd files readable and correctly structured while avoiding unnecessary raw HTML. It also guides common document features such as callouts and rendered layouts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nrdxp/predicate/quarto
Any agent
npx skills add nrdxp/predicate --skill quarto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nrdxp/predicate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,360 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 $0.00091 $0.03360
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01680
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00672
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00336

Measured yesterday against content hash 2efd3aeea57d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quarto 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 yesterday.

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/quarto/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quarto (.qmd) Authoring Rules

Quarto is a superset of Pandoc Markdown. It prioritizes semantic structure over visual formatting.

Golden Rule: Never use raw HTML tags (<div>, <img>, <br>) unless absolutely necessary. Use Pandoc Fenced Divs and Spans.

Official Documentation: quarto.org/docs is the authoritative reference. Consult it for edge cases, advanced features, or when this skill lacks specifics.


1. Block Structure (Fenced Divs)

Quarto uses Fenced Divs (:::) to define layout, callouts, and structural blocks. More colons (:::::) enable nesting.

Callouts (Alerts)

Convert standard Markdown blockquotes (>) into semantic callouts.

Type Syntax Use Case
Note ::: {.callout-note} Non-critical info
Tip ::: {.callout-tip} Best practices/optimizations
Important ::: {.callout-important} Key constraints
Warning ::: {.callout-warning} Failure modes
Caution ::: {.callout-caution} Data loss risks

Features:

  • Title: Use a ## heading inside, or the title="..." attribute.
  • Collapse: Add collapse="true" for expandable callouts (collapsed by default).
  • Appearance: appearance="simple" or appearance="minimal" for alternate styles.
  • Icons: icon=false to suppress the default icon.
::: {.callout-caution collapse="true" appearance="simple"}

## Warning Title

Collapsible content.
:::

Multi-Column Layouts

Do not use HTML tables or CSS grids for layout. Use Quarto layout divs.

:::: {.columns}

::: {.column width="40%"}
Left content (e.g., text)
:::

::: {.column width="60%"}
Right content (e.g., image or code)
:::

::::

Tabsets

Group content into switchable tabs using the .panel-tabset class.

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 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. yesterday First seen · 445 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 2efd3aeea57d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quarto is a skill published in the GitHub repository nrdxp/predicate (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,360 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 2026-08-31.

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