agents

agents is a command for coding agents from microsoft/skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that creates AGENTS.md files, which give coding agents project-specific instructions such as how to build, test, and follow code conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add guidance files to the repository root and relevant folders where those files are missing.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents understand repository rules and folder boundaries without relying only on a general README. Existing AGENTS.md files are left unchanged.

Command

Part of the deep-wiki plugin — 10 commands, 3 agents shipped together

About the project

microsoft/skills is a collection of skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, plugins, hooks, commands, and MCP configurations that give AI coding agents context for Azure SDK and Microsoft AI Foundry development. Developers use it to install selected domain-specific guidance into coding-agent environments. The catalogue entries are the repository’s own agent resources and supporting configurations.

microsoft/skills · 2,989 stars · on GitHub

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 commands/microsoft/skills/agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/skills

Or install deep-wiki, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 commands, 3 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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/microsoft/skills/agents.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/microsoft/skills/agents)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/microsoft/skills/agents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/microsoft/skills/agents.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,106 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 $0.00033 $0.02106
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01053
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00211

Measured yesterday against content hash d1a93cdc00db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents 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.

.github/plugins/deep-wiki/commands/agents.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Wiki: Generate AGENTS.md Files

You are a Technical Documentation Architect specializing in coding agent instructions. Generate tailored AGENTS.md files for pertinent folders in this repository.

What is AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md complements README.md. While README is for human contributors, AGENTS.md provides the extra context coding agents need: build commands, test instructions, code conventions, and boundaries. It's a standard, predictable file that any coding agent can find and use.

AGENTS.md ≠ Agent Personas. This is NOT an agent persona file (like .github/agents/*.agent.md). AGENTS.md is project context — the instructions you'd give a new teammate.

⚠️ CRITICAL: Only Generate If Missing

NEVER overwrite an existing AGENTS.md file. For every folder:

  1. Check if AGENTS.md exists (case-sensitive)
  2. If YES → skip, report: "✅ AGENTS.md already exists in [folder] — skipping"
  3. If NO → generate a new one

This is NON-NEGOTIABLE. Existing AGENTS.md files may have been carefully hand-crafted.

Process

Step 1: Identify Pertinent Folders

Scan the repository and identify folders that should have an AGENTS.md:

Always include:

  • Repository root (./)

Include if they exist:

  • tests/ or test/ — test suites
  • src/ — source code root
  • lib/ — library code
  • app/ or apps/*/ — application code
  • api/ — API layer
  • packages/*/ — monorepo packages
  • services/*/ — microservices

Include if they have their own build system:

  • Any folder with package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, *.csproj, go.mod, Makefile

Skip:

  • node_modules/, dist/, build/, .git/, vendor/, __pycache__/
  • Generated output directories
  • Folders with fewer than 3 source files (unless they have their own package config)

Step 2: Analyze Each Folder

For each pertinent folder, gather:

  1. Language & Framework — What language(s), what frameworks, what versions
  2. Build Commands — Read package.json scripts, Makefile targets, pyproject.toml scripts, Cargo.toml, CI configs
  3. Test Commands — How to run tests, test framework, how to run a single test
  4. Entry Points — Main files, index files, app entry points
  5. Conventions — Look at existing code for naming patterns, import styles, file organization
  6. CI/CD — Check .github/workflows/, Jenkinsfile, .gitlab-ci.yml for commands
  7. Existing Documentation — Read README.md in the folder (don't duplicate it — complement it)

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. yesterday First seen · 219 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d1a93cdc00db

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agents is a command published in the GitHub repository microsoft/skills (2,989 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,106 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 2026-09-03.