clarion-template

clarion-template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robertorenz/templatemaker. It costs 128 tokens per session (4,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing Clarion templates, which are text programs that make Clarion's AppGen generate application source code from project settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports creating, changing, debugging, and explaining Clarion template files used for procedures, controls, extensions, and generated code.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing the template language, prompt controls, code-generation rules, and insertion points.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It supports creating, changing, debugging, and explaining Clarion template files used for procedures, controls, extensions, and generated code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertorenz/templatemaker/clarion-template
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add robertorenz/templatemaker --skill clarion-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertorenz/templatemaker

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,504 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00128 $0.04504
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.02252
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00901
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00450

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6dbf9df4fbc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarion-template 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 10d 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/clarion-template/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clarion Template Authoring

Clarion's Application Generator (AppGen) builds source code by running templates against an application's dictionary, windows, and the developer's prompt choices. A template is a text program written in the Template Language (directives prefixed with #) interleaved with literal Clarion source that is emitted verbatim. Mastering it means you can generate any boilerplate the developer would otherwise hand-write, with a configurable UI in front of it.

This skill teaches you to write correct, idiomatic templates. Reference files (read them when the task touches their area — don't load all of them up front):

  • reference/directives.md — the full directive vocabulary with real signatures and examples.
  • reference/patterns.md — battle-tested authoring patterns (multi-DLL, class registration, embeds, reuse).
  • reference/examples.md — three complete, annotated templates dissected line-by-line.
  • reference/legacy-cw20.md — the Legacy (CW20) chain: how it differs from ABC, the verified embed-point mapping, and the porting gaps. Read it whenever the target family is CW20 or the words "Legacy browse/chain" appear in the task.

Where the corpus lives — <CLARION_ROOT>

Paths below use <CLARION_ROOT> = the root of the Clarion install you are working in: the folder that contains both a bin\ and a template\win\ subtree. Resolve it per task, do not assume C:\clarion12:

  • If you know the path of the .tpl/.tpw/.app in play, walk up from it to the first ancestor folder that has both bin\ and template\win\ — that ancestor is <CLARION_ROOT>.
  • Machines often carry several side-by-side installs (10 / 11.0 / 11.1 / 12). Prefer the install that owns the file in play; when no file pins the version, ask the developer which install to use rather than assuming a specific folder name.

The canonical PDFs ship at <CLARION_ROOT>\docs\TemplateLanguageReference.pdf and TemplateGuide.pdf. Real shipped templates live in <CLARION_ROOT>\template\win\ (ABC = AB*.TPW, classic = the rest) and third-party examples in <CLARION_ROOT>\accessory\template\win\. When unsure of exact syntax, read a shipped template that already does the thing you need — the corpus is the ground truth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 235 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 6dbf9df4fbc3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarion-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertorenz/templatemaker (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 4,504 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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