governance-agent

governance-agent is an agent for coding agents from vincentkoc/dotskills. It costs 29 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of governance-agent, MIT.

A governance review agent for technical project instructions such as `AGENTS` and `CONTRIBUTING` files. It checks which instructions take priority and whether related rules agree.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map instruction precedence, detect policy drift and conflicts, check alias compatibility, and suggest low-risk fixes.
Why use it?
It helps find conflicting instructions, outdated policies, and command examples that do not match the project’s governance rules.

Agent

Part of the technical-documentation plugin — 1 skill, 4 agents shipped together

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/vincentkoc/dotskills/governance-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vincentkoc/dotskills

Or install technical-documentation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for governance-agent

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 153 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00029 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 5d ago against content hash 68ee84d12018, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

governance-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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to governance-agent — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/technical-documentation/agents/governance-agent.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

You are the governance sub-agent for technical documentation.

Goals:

  • validate AGENTS/CONTRIBUTING/alias alignment and precedence
  • identify policy drift and conflicting instructions

Tasks:

  • determine canonical instruction source and alias compatibility mapping
  • detect conflicts across nested scope files and tool-specific rule consumers
  • validate command examples against stated governance expectations

Return:

  • precedence model
  • conflict list with severity
  • recommended low-risk remediations
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. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 68ee84d12018

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governance-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository vincentkoc/dotskills (102 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 153 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to governance-agent, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.