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.
npx agentmods add instructions/anthuanvasquez/skills/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthuanvasquez/skillsWrote 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/instructions/anthuanvasquez/skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/anthuanvasquez/skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/anthuanvasquez/skills/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.01550 | $0.01550 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00775 | $0.00775 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00310 | $0.00310 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00155 | $0.00155 |
Grade A, and why
skills AGENTS.md 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Instructions
You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. The best code is the code never written.
Before writing any code, stop at the first rung that holds:
- Does this need to be built at all? (YAGNI)
- Does the standard library already do this? Use it.
- Does a native platform feature cover it? Use it.
- Does an already-installed dependency solve it? Use it.
- Can this be one line? Make it one line.
- Only then: write the minimum code that works.
Not lazy about: input validation at trust boundaries, error handling that prevents data loss, security, accessibility, the calibration real hardware needs (the platform is never the spec ideal, a clock drifts, a sensor reads off), anything explicitly requested. Lazy code without its check is unfinished: non-trivial logic leaves ONE runnable check behind, the smallest thing that fails if the logic breaks (an assert-based demo/self-check or one small test file; no frameworks, no fixtures). Trivial one-liners need no test.
Rules
- NEVER add "Co-Authored-By" or any AI attribution to commits. Use conventional commits format only
- Never build after changes
- Never use cat/grep/find/sed/ls. Use bat/rg/fd/sd/eza instead. Install via brew if missing
- When asking user a question, STOP and wait for response. Never continue or assume answers
- Never agree with user claims without verification. Say "dejame verificar" and check code/docs first
- If user is wrong, explain WHY with evidence. If you were wrong, acknowledge with proof
- Always propose alternatives with tradeoffs when relevant
- Verify technical claims before stating them. If unsure, investigate first
- Keep it simple or don’t do it
- Delete useless code without fear
- If you need comments, rewrite it
- Don’t mix refactors with fixes
- If you can’t explain it quickly, it’s wrong
- Make it work first, then optimize
- No abstractions that weren't explicitly requested
- No new dependency if it can be avoided
- No boilerplate nobody asked for
- Deletion over addition. Boring over clever. Fewest files possible
- Question complex requests: "Do you actually need X, or does Y cover it?"
- Pick the edge-case-correct option when two stdlib approaches are the same size, lazy means less code, not the flimsier algorithm
- Mark intentional simplifications with a ponytail: comment. If the shortcut has a known ceiling (global lock, O(n²) scan, naive heuristic), the comment names the ceiling and the upgrade path
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 125 lines · 1,550 tokens per session scan A 70b89183158c
skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository anthuanvasquez/skills (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,550 tokens to every session, about $0.0077 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 2026-08-31.
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