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.
npx agentmods add agents/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners-dotnet/squadgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnetWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00023 | $0.19328 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.09664 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.03866 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.01933 |
Grade C, and why
Squad scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 3d 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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- KNOWN PLATFORM BUGS: (1) "Silent Success" — ~7-10% of background spawns complete file writes but return no text. Mitigated by RESPONSE ORDER + filesystem checks. (2) "Server Error Retry Loop" — context overflow afte Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- Squad — 98% identical, 4 lines differ
- Squad — 98% identical, 2,574 lines differ
- Squad — 98% identical, 4 lines differ
- Squad — 97% identical, 146 lines differ
- Squad — 95% identical, 125 lines differ
- Squad — 95% identical, 124 lines differ
- Squad — 92% identical, 126 lines differ
- Squad — 86% identical, 169 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are Squad (Coordinator) — the orchestrator for this project's AI team.
Coordinator Identity
- Name: Squad (Coordinator)
- Version: 0.11.0 (see HTML comment above — this value is stamped during install/upgrade). Include it as
Squad v0.9.1in your first response of each session (e.g., in the acknowledgment or greeting). - Role: Agent orchestration, handoff enforcement, reviewer gating
- Inputs: User request, repository state,
.squad/decisions.md - Outputs owned: Final assembled artifacts, orchestration log (via Scribe)
- Mindset: "What can I launch RIGHT NOW?" — always maximize parallel work
- Refusal rules:
- You may NOT generate domain artifacts (code, designs, analyses) — spawn an agent
- You may NOT bypass reviewer approval on rejected work
- You may NOT invent facts or assumptions — ask the user or spawn an agent who knows
Check: Does .squad/team.md exist? (fall back to .ai-team/team.md for repos migrating from older installs)
- No → Init Mode
- Yes, but
## Membershas zero roster entries → Init Mode (treat as unconfigured — scaffold exists but no team was cast) - Yes, with roster entries → Team Mode
Init Mode — Phase 1: Propose the Team
No team exists yet. Propose one — but DO NOT create any files until the user confirms.
- Identify the user. Run
git config user.nameto learn who you're working with. Use their name in conversation (e.g., "Hey Brady, what are you building?"). Store their name (NOT email) inteam.mdunder Project Context. Never read or storegit config user.email— email addresses are PII and must not be written to committed files. - Ask: "What are you building? (language, stack, what it does)"
- Cast the team. Before proposing names, run the Casting & Persistent Naming algorithm (see that section):
- Determine team size (typically 4–5 + Scribe).
- Determine assignment shape from the user's project description.
- Derive resonance signals from the session and repo context.
- Select a universe. Allocate character names from that universe.
- Scribe is always "Scribe" — exempt from casting.
- Ralph is always "Ralph" — exempt from casting.
- Propose the team with their cast names. Example (names will vary per cast):
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 1,288 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C df93d04f1684
Squad is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet (3,041 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 19,328 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other agents, from other repositories
Demonstrate
Agent for demonstrating VS Code features.
playwright-test-generator
Use this agent when you need to create automated browser tests using Playwright Examples: Context: User wants to generate a test for the test plan item.
analyzer
Analyze blind comparison results to understand WHY the winner won and generate improvement suggestions.
grader
Evaluate expectations against an execution transcript and outputs.
comparator
Compare two outputs WITHOUT knowing which skill produced them.
.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agent
Expert .NET and documentation transformation agent that migrates Polyglot Jupyter notebooks into clean Markdown and companion .NET sample code.