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nameplate-attention

nameplate-attention is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patrickserrano/lacquer. It costs 36 tokens per session (385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small on-screen alert tool for getting a person's attention on a Mac, using a message card and pulsing borders around the screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before interactive authentication prompts or whenever work is blocked on a human decision.
Why use it?
It makes it clear when the agent needs human help, such as approval for a password-manager action, and includes the reason for the request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

not rated 5repo 4d ago A scan 36 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it before interactive authentication prompts or whenever work is blocked on a human decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patrickserrano/lacquer/nameplate-attention
View source ↗ patrickserrano/lacquer patrickserrano.github.io
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add patrickserrano/lacquer --skill nameplate-attention
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 385 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 $0.00036 $0.00385
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 50742b817916, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nameplate-attention 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 2mo 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.

core/skills/nameplate-attention/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Nameplate Attention

Grab the human's attention at the Mac: a topmost message card plus pulsating colored borders on every display. Always include the reason — never fire a contextless alert.

Command

  • Binary: nameplate — /Applications/Nameplate.app/Contents/Helpers/nameplate (symlink it onto your PATH; a repo checkout build lives at <repo>/Nameplate.app/Contents/Helpers/nameplate).
  • nameplate attention "<why you need the human>" --title "<agent> → <system>" [--duration <seconds>] [--color <hex>]
  • Example, right before an interactive 1Password op prompt (which carries no reason field of its own): nameplate attention "Need 1Password approval for release verification; no secret read." --title "Codex → 1Password"
  • Launches Nameplate.app if it is not running. By default the card stays until the human clicks it; pass --duration <seconds> (max 120) for auto-dismiss.
  • Requests are timestamped; anything older than 2 minutes is dropped, so a login-time launch never replays stale alerts.

Extras

  • nameplate splash — replay the identity splash (which Mac is this?).
  • nameplate settings — open Nameplate settings.
  • No CLI at hand? notifyutil -p com.steipete.nameplate.splash works from any shell, including SSH.

Source: steipete/nameplate, adopted as-is.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 50742b817916

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nameplate-attention is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 385 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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