insert-block

An editor action for inserting an exact block of text at a specified place in a file or at the current cursor. The supplied text is kept unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to paste or append a known code block before or after a line, at the cursor, or at the end of a file.
Why use it?
It avoids having the agent invent, reformat, rename, or fill in code that the user did not provide.

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/valsteen/write-code-by-hand/insert-block
Any agent
npx skills add valsteen/write-code-by-hand --skill insert-block
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/valsteen/write-code-by-hand

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 240 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 $0.00049 $0.00240
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 0c7b78af8511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

insert-block 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/insert-block/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Insert Block

Insert exactly the text supplied by the user.

Operational framing: ingest human-authored bytes. Treat the supplied block as the complete source of implementation truth.

Required Inputs

  • Target file.
  • Insertion location: before line, after line, at cursor, or end of file.
  • Exact block text.

If any input is missing, ask for it.

Rules

  • Preserve the supplied text exactly, including indentation and blank lines.
  • Do not generate missing code.
  • Do not wrap, reformat, or rename anything.
  • If the user says "insert this" but provides no block, ask them to type it.
  • After insertion, update the cursor to the end of the inserted block.

Output

Confirm:

Inserted exactly <n> line(s) <location> in <path>.
Cursor: <line>

Offer to show the changed range.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 39 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 0c7b78af8511

Subscribe to this mod's changes

insert-block is a skill published in the GitHub repository valsteen/write-code-by-hand (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 240 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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