use-documented-instruction-keywords

use-documented-instruction-keywords is an agent for coding agents from microsoft/BCQuality. It costs 0 tokens per session (308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The agent runtime looks for specific phrases: ask for assistance, request a review, reply, write an email, memorize, Set field, use lookup, Invoke action. Ordinary English such as get a human to look or remember this is weaker. Outbound reply and email always require review; that is platform policy, not optional tone.

Agent

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 agents/microsoft/bcquality/use-documented-instruction-keywords
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/BCQuality

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.00308
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured yesterday against content hash 697922415cce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-documented-instruction-keywords 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.

community/knowledge/agents/use-documented-instruction-keywords.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Use the toolkit instruction keywords for review, mail, and memory

Description

The agent runtime looks for specific phrases: ask for assistance, request a review, reply, write an email, memorize, Set field, use lookup, Invoke action. Ordinary English such as get a human to look or remember this is weaker. Outbound reply and email always require review; that is platform policy, not optional tone.

Best Practice

In the instruction resource, use those keywords at the decision points: request a review before posting; write an email only after stating that outbound mail is reviewed; memorize values the later steps need. Pair Reply / Write an email with an explicit review sentence.

See sample: use-documented-instruction-keywords.good.al.

Anti Pattern

Inventing tool-like verbs (call Copilot, click Post_Promoted) or omitting request a review before posting. Detection signal: instruction text that says email the customer with no review keyword.

See sample: use-documented-instruction-keywords.bad.al.

See also

instruction-structure-is-role-rules-steps.md defines the containing document structure, while instructions-describe-work-not-tool-ids.md keeps outcomes independent of UI tool identifiers.

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 · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 697922415cce

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use-documented-instruction-keywords is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/BCQuality (204 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 308 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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