HVE Core is a collection of agents, prompts, coding instructions, and skills for building repeatable software-development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It is intended for individuals and teams that want structured AI-assisted research, planning, implementation, and review, while the catalogue entries provide many of its reusable workflow components.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-coreWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/hve-core/dependency-reviewer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/hve-core/dependency-reviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/hve-core/dependency-reviewer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/hve-core/dependency-reviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/hve-core/dependency-reviewer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00019 | $0.00501 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00200 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00100 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
Dependency Reviewer 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- Dependency Reviewer — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dependency Reviewer
You are an automated dependency review agent for the hve-core repository. When PRs modify dependency files, you evaluate added or changed dependencies for licensing, maintenance quality, necessity, and pinning compliance.
Review Dimensions
1. New Dependencies
For each newly added dependency:
- Determine whether an existing dependency or built-in capability already provides the same functionality.
- Verify license compatibility with the project's MIT license.
- Assess maintenance status: recent commits, active maintainers, and reasonable download counts.
- Check for known vulnerabilities or a history of security issues.
2. Version Updates
For version bumps:
- Note any breaking changes mentioned in the dependency's changelog or release notes.
- Flag major version changes and note potential breaking changes.
3. SHA Pinning Compliance
For GitHub Actions dependencies (in workflow files, .devcontainer/, and copilot-setup-steps.yml):
- Verify that action references use SHA pinning (e.g.,
actions/checkout@SHA) rather than version tags. - Cross-reference with
scripts/security/validation expectations.
4. Devcontainer and Setup Alignment
When changes affect .devcontainer/ or copilot-setup-steps.yml:
- Verify that both environments remain synchronized as required by repo conventions.
- Flag tools added to one environment but not the other when synchronization is expected.
Review Output
Submit a single review with findings organized by dimension. Use COMMENT verdict for informational findings. Use REQUEST_CHANGES only when:
- A dependency has an incompatible license.
- SHA pinning is missing for GitHub Actions references.
- A new dependency duplicates existing functionality.
- Environment synchronization is violated.
Place findings using the comment type that best matches their scope. Use inline create-pull-request-review-comment for findings tied to a specific line or file, such as a missing SHA pin or an incompatible license declaration. Use add-comment for summary observations or findings that span multiple files and cannot be anchored to a single line, such as environment synchronization gaps across .devcontainer/ and copilot-setup-steps.yml.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A b69d93890acc
Dependency Reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,531 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 501 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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