agent-skills AGENTS.md

A contributor guide for the auth0/agent-skills repository, which contains an Auth0 authentication skill for coding assistants. Auth0 is a service developers use to add user login and identity management to applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the Auth0 skill, its reference documents, scripts, or required frontmatter, while keeping the repository’s routing and evaluation requirements intact.
Why use it?
It explains the repository layout and required skill-file rules before someone changes the authentication guidance or its supporting references.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/auth0/agent-skills/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/auth0/agent-skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,864 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,864 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01864 $0.01864
Opus 5 $0.00932 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00373 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00186 $0.00186

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4d2164933bec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 2d 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.

AGENTS.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for AI coding agents working in this repository.

What this repo is

An Agent Skill that teaches coding assistants how to implement Auth0 authentication that follows Auth0's documented SDK usage and passes this repo's routing and behavioral evals. It ships as a single Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot plugin (auth0) containing one consolidated skill at plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/: a router SKILL.md over a pool of on-demand reference files, some of which are grouped into hub+leaf directories. The deliverable is the skill itself.

Repository layout

plugins/auth0/skills/auth0/
├── SKILL.md            # Required: the router (only file allowed in skill root)
├── references/         # On-demand docs, each reachable from SKILL.md. Every
│                       #   reference is a directory — framework-<name>/,
│                       #   feature-<name>/, tooling-<name>/, pattern-<name>/
│                       #   (kebab-case) — with an index.md that is either the
│                       #   whole reference (index-only) or a hub + document-
│                       #   section leaves (leaf group).
├── scripts/            # Optional: executable helpers
└── assets/             # Optional: static resources (templates, data)

evals/                  # Repo-root eval harness (NOT inside the skill dir):
├── routing-cases.json  #   deterministic routing cases (scripts/check_routing_evals.py)
├── activation/         #   activation evals — does the SKILL.md `description` fire on the
│                       #   right prompts and stay quiet on the wrong ones? The only layer
│                       #   that tests frontmatter; run it after any description edit.
└── behavioral/         #   behavioral evals — run-evals.mjs drives a live agent via the
                        #   claude CLI + execa. Kept out of the skill dir on purpose so
                        #   this dev-only harness isn't in per-skill security-scan scope.

Key top-level docs:

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 1,864 tokens per session scan A 4d2164933bec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository auth0/agent-skills (45 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,864 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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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