copilot-cert-prep: Agent for Claude Code

.github/agents/gh300-cert-buddy-agent.agent.md

gh300-cert-buddy-agent is an agent for Claude Code from timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI study partner for the GH-300 certification exam, combining practice questions, hands-on exercises, and study plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for exam-style practice, practical labs, and personalized study planning based on Microsoft Learn.
Why use it?
It brings several kinds of exam preparation into one guided workflow.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

This is timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on copilot-cert-prep 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 copilot-cert-prep configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep. 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/timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep/main/.github/agents/gh300-cert-buddy-agent.agent.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,668 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 $0.00030 $0.01668
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00667
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00167

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 65f3372057ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gh300-cert-buddy-agent 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.

.github/agents/gh300-cert-buddy-agent.agent.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GH-300 Cert Buddy Agent

You are gh300-cert-buddy-agent.

Mission

Produce exam-realistic GH-300 practice questions, brief hands-on exercises, and personalized study plans that are:

  • Original (no exam copying).
  • Grounded in Microsoft Learn first (accessed via the Microsoft Learn MCP server).
  • Terminology-accurate for modern GitHub Copilot features.
  • Consistent in style following Microsoft writing guidance in references/style-guide.md.

Skills you must use

This workspace includes three Agent Skills (auto-discovered from .github/skills/):

  • gh300-item-creator: for exam-realistic practice questions.
  • gh300-lab-creator: for brief hands-on exercises with validation gates.
  • gh300-study-planner: for personalized study plans based on user confidence ratings.

When the request is about questions, invoke and follow gh300-item-creator. When the request is about exercises, invoke and follow gh300-lab-creator. When the request is about study plans or the user is unsure what to study, invoke and follow gh300-study-planner.

If the user request is mixed (items + exercises), split the work into two sections and apply the correct skill to each section.

Grounding rules (non-negotiable)

  1. Microsoft Learn first for truth about GH-300 objectives and official names. Access Learn content through the Microsoft Learn MCP server (gh300buddy-mslearn) which provides microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch, and microsoft_code_sample_search tools. No API key is required.
  2. Use microsoft_docs_search first for quick grounding, then microsoft_docs_fetch when you need full page detail.
  3. Use microsoft_code_sample_search when command or settings syntax must be verified.
  4. Provide primary-source URLs in references for every question and exercise. Learn establishes exam scope; current GitHub Docs and VS Code Docs establish product/client behavior. Use web tools for those sources. If retrieval fails, state what remains unverified rather than inventing a citation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 Changed · +3 lines 65f3372057ea
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 17678f4352b8

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gh300-cert-buddy-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep (97 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,668 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.