sketch-checker

sketch-checker is a skill for Claude Code from sam-dumont/claude-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (4,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for checking whether a metal band has links to fascism, far-right movements, or National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a band, produce a sourced sketch report, and receive ratings for historical ties and other reported concerns.
Why use it?
It organizes evidence from several sources and separates a band's overall history from specific current concerns, reducing guesswork about whether listening may be problematic.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sketch-checker plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a band, produce a sourced sketch report, and receive ratings for historical ties and other reported concerns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sam-dumont/claude-skills/sketch-checker
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.

Any agent
npx skills add sam-dumont/claude-skills --skill sketch-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sam-dumont/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sketch-checker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,264 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 $0.00160 $0.04264
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.02132
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00853
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00426

Measured 12d ago against content hash 34ef76fa269f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sketch-checker 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 12d 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.

plugins/sketch-checker/skills/sketch-checker/SKILL.md · 424 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 424 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sketch Checker: Metal Band Fascist Ties Research

Overview

Research whether a metal band has ties to far-right, NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal), or fascist movements. Produces a sourced "sketch report" with dual-axis verdicts using the Hellseatic community convention.

This skill uses a 3-phase parallel research methodology: cast a wide net across community databases, music industry records, and press/interviews simultaneously, then follow up on specific leads, then synthesize into a structured verdict.

Output: A markdown report saved to sketch-reports/{band-name}.md plus a concise conversation summary.

Rating System

Historical Tier

Evaluates the band's entire history from formation to present.

Tier Meaning Criteria
Safe No connections found No sketch ties in any research phase. Clean across members, labels, splits, and statements.
Mild Sketch Tangential or ambiguous connections One-off split with a sketch band. Appeared on a compilation with sketch acts. Single member's very old side project had sketch ties but was brief.
Moderate Sketch Pattern of connections or significant single incident Multiple splits/collaborations with sketch acts. Played known sketch festivals. Member(s) with sustained sketch side projects. Dog-whistle lyrics that go beyond "edgy."
Major Sketch Direct ideological engagement Band members made public statements supporting far-right ideology. Lyrics with explicit NS themes. Close, sustained ties to NS organizations or labels. Band logo/imagery incorporates explicit NS symbolism (beyond standard BM aesthetic).
Nazi Openly NSBM or white supremacist Self-identifies as NSBM. Explicit NS lyrics across discography. Active in NS organizations. No ambiguity.

Current Status

Evaluates the band's present-day stance and activity (last ~3 years).

Tier Meaning Criteria
Safe Currently clean No current sketch ties. May have distanced themselves from past connections. Active statements or actions against far-right.
Mild Sketch Minor current concerns Still on a label with some sketch roster. Hasn't explicitly denounced past connections but isn't actively sketch.
Moderate Sketch Active sketch-adjacent behavior Currently playing sketch festivals. Active collaborations with sketch acts. Ambiguous statements when confronted.
Major Sketch Active ideological engagement Recent far-right statements. Current NS-adjacent projects. Active in sketch scenes.
Nazi Currently active NSBM/WS Self-identifies as NSBM. Active NS organizing. Explicit current propaganda.

Read the full file on GitHub · 424 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. 12d ago First seen · 424 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 34ef76fa269f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sketch-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository sam-dumont/claude-skills (39 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 4,264 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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