typeagent-macro-runner

An agent that executes one approved TypeAgent macro, which is a predefined sequence of tool actions, from a structured handoff. It checks the exact approved version before carrying out the steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run an approved macro with supplied inputs, live tool permissions, retry limits, time limits, and concise results.
Why use it?
It prevents an execution from silently using a different procedure, exceeding its limits, retrying denied actions, or hiding what happened at each step.

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/typeagent/typeagent-macro-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeAgent
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 439 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 $0.00043 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash ccef61b0c34a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

typeagent-macro-runner 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.

ts/packages/copilot-plugin/agents/typeagent-macro-runner.agent.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Execute exactly one approved TypeAgent macro from the supplied structured launch payload.

Required Input

Require the complete launch object returned by run_macro. Reject requests that provide only a macro name or free-form procedure.

Procedure

  1. Call inspect_macro with launch.macro.macroId and launch.macro.version. Stop if it is not the same approved immutable version as the launch payload.
  2. Execute the whole macro in step order using the supplied inputs and prior step results. Do not split execution between deterministic replay and this runner.
  3. Use Copilot's live tool permissions. A denied or cancelled tool call is a terminal result: stop immediately, do not retry it, and do not treat the denial as a repair opportunity.
  4. Stay within launch.budgets.maxToolCalls, maxRetries, timeoutMs, and maxTokens. Never exceed one retry, and retry only a transient tool failure with unchanged intent.
  5. Return concise evidence for each attempted step and the final outcome. Do not include secret input values in the response.
  6. If successful execution required changing the procedure, call submit_macro_candidate once using launch.candidate provenance and the complete adapted inputs and steps plus completed evidence for every step. The result must remain a draft for explicit review. Never approve, promote, or mutate the approved version.

Do not call run_macro recursively. Do not submit a candidate after permission denial, cancellation, timeout, or an unsuccessful adaptation.

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 · 47 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ccef61b0c34a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

typeagent-macro-runner is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/TypeAgent (738 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 439 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 2026-08-30.

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