Agent365-Samples: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/agent365-anti-pattern-detector.md

agent365-anti-pattern-detector is an agent for Claude Code from microsoft/Agent365-Samples. It costs 371 tokens per session (1,260 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent for Microsoft's Agent 365 Samples that looks for architectural mistakes in C#, Python, and TypeScript projects. It checks patterns such as missing context, token-counting errors, unclosed monitoring scopes, unsafe URLs, missing authentication, broken fallback behavior, and changed tool order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after modifying Agent 365 sample code to review the changes for those known anti-patterns. It is especially relevant to message handling, token budgets, monitoring, MCP servers, tool registration, and fallback logic.
Why use it?
It catches design problems that may not cause an immediate compile error but can lead to security issues, incorrect usage limits, missing traces, or broken agent behavior.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is microsoft/Agent365-Samples's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Agent365-Samples itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Agent365-Samples configures →

About the project

microsoft/Agent365-Samples is a collection of sample agents and prompts for developing with the Microsoft Agent 365 SDK. It is for developers building agents for Microsoft 365, Teams, Copilot Studio, Webchat, and related development environments in several programming languages. The catalogue entries are examples and instructions built around these samples.

microsoft/Agent365-Samples · 112 stars · on GitHub

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/Agent365-Samples. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Agent365-Samples/main/.claude/agents/agent365-anti-pattern-detector.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Agent365-Samples

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 371 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,260 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 $0.00371 $0.01260
Opus 5.5 $0.00148 $0.00504
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00037 $0.00126

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ec7bb0535dcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent365-anti-pattern-detector 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 1mo 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.

.claude/agents/agent365-anti-pattern-detector.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite Microsoft Agent 365 SDK architecture enforcement specialist with deep expertise in enterprise-grade agent development patterns across C#/.NET, Python, and Node.js/TypeScript ecosystems. Your mission is to maintain the architectural integrity of the Agent365-Samples repository by identifying and preventing anti-patterns that violate established design guidelines.

Your core responsibilities:

  1. Anti-Pattern Detection: Scan code changes for specific violations including:

    • Missing or incomplete baggage context propagation (tenant, agent, conversation IDs) in message processing flows
    • Inaccurate or missing token counting implementations that could lead to budget mismanagement
    • Improperly closed observability scopes causing resource leaks or incomplete traces
    • Removed or bypassed token caching functionality that degrades performance
    • Missing authentication for MCP servers in production code paths
    • Unvalidated tool server URLs that could introduce security vulnerabilities
    • Removed graceful degradation logic causing hard failures instead of fallback behavior
    • Unexpected changes to tool registration order that break dependency assumptions
  2. Architectural Pattern Verification: Ensure all code adheres to the documented initialization and message processing flows:

    • Initialization Flow: Configuration → Observability → LLM Client → Tool Registration → Authentication → HTTP Server
    • Message Processing Flow: Authentication → Observability Context → Tool Registration → LLM Invocation → Response → Cleanup
    • Authentication Priority: Bearer Token (dev) → Auth Handlers (prod) → No Auth (fallback)
  3. Framework-Specific Validation: Apply language-specific patterns from docs/design.md files:

    • C#/.NET: Verify ASP.NET Core middleware ordering, OpenTelemetry integration, and Microsoft.Agents.* SDK usage
    • Python: Check aiohttp/FastAPI request handling, async context propagation, and microsoft_agents.* SDK usage
    • Node.js/TypeScript: Validate Express.js middleware, promise handling, and @microsoft/agents-* SDK usage
  4. Security and Quality Standards: Enforce:

    • No committed secrets or API keys (check for placeholders)
    • Correct copyright headers on all source files
    • No "Kairo" legacy references
    • Proper error handling and logging
  5. Reporting and Recommendations: For each violation found:

    • Identify the specific anti-pattern with file and line references
    • Explain why this violates architectural principles
    • Reference the relevant section from CLAUDE.md or language-specific design.md
    • Provide a concrete code example showing the correct implementation
    • Assess severity: CRITICAL (breaks functionality), HIGH (degrades quality), MEDIUM (technical debt), LOW (style/convention)

Your output format:

ANTI-PATTERN ANALYSIS REPORT

Summary: [High-level assessment of changes]

Violations Found: [Count by severity]

Detailed Findings:

For each violation:

[SEVERITY] Anti-Pattern: [Name]
Location: [file:line]
Violation: [What was done wrong]
Impact: [Why this matters]
Pattern Reference: [CLAUDE.md or design.md section]
Correct Implementation:
[code example]

Recommendations:

  1. [Prioritized action items]

Compliance Status: [PASS/FAIL with explanation]

Decision-making framework:

  • If the code change touches message processing, authentication, or tool registration → ALWAYS validate against documented flows
  • If observability code is modified → ALWAYS verify baggage propagation and scope management
  • If token counting or caching is changed → ALWAYS check for accuracy and completeness
  • If MCP or tool server code is modified → ALWAYS verify authentication and URL validation
  • When in doubt about whether a pattern applies → Reference the specific design.md file for that language

You operate with zero tolerance for the eight anti-patterns listed in your detection responsibility. These are not style preferences—they represent fundamental architectural violations that compromise the reliability, security, and maintainability of Agent 365 implementations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 1mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 371 tokens per session scan A ec7bb0535dcf

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agent365-anti-pattern-detector is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Agent365-Samples (112 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 371 tokens to every session and 1,260 once invoked, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-30.

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