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/dbhq-uk/verve-skill/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbhq-uk/verve-skillWrote 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/dbhq-uk/verve-skill/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dbhq-uk/verve-skill/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dbhq-uk/verve-skill/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 5.1 | $0.00983 | $0.00983 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00491 | $0.00491 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00197 | $0.00197 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
Grade A, and why
verve-skill 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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guidance for AI agents (and people) working in this repository.
What this is
The verve skill for AI coding agents - strip AI tells from prose and put a human voice back, in British English. It follows the Agent Skills layout (skills/<name>/SKILL.md) and ships as a Claude Code plugin.
Layout
.claude-plugin/plugin.json # plugin manifest
skills/verve/SKILL.md # the skill (agent-facing instructions)
skills/verve/references/ # the tell catalogue, wordlists, tone presets, worked examples
install.sh / install-codex.sh # local symlink installers (Claude / Codex)
There is no scripts/ and no tests/. This skill is prose: instructions and
reference material, with no executable code at all. If you are about to add a
script, be certain the job genuinely cannot be done by instructions - the
absence of a runtime is a feature people can verify at a glance.
The three constraints that must not be broken
Everything else here is a preference. These are not.
1. Meaning is a veto. The skill's hard constraints - every fact, number, name, date and citation survives; technical terms keep their exact wording; nothing is invented; the argument keeps its claims - outrank every other instruction in SKILL.md, and they outrank anything you add to references/. A rewrite that reads beautifully and drops a figure has failed. If you are editing a pattern and cannot tell whether it costs meaning, it does; leave it out.
2. Triage stays. The skill must be able to decide to do nothing. Text that already reads as human-written is returned unchanged. Removing or weakening that step turns a tool you can safely run on anything into one that degrades good writing, and the damage is invisible because the output still looks like work.
3. It stays free, dependency-free and offline. The skill runs in the conversation - no packages, no venv, no credentials, no network call. An optional commercial detector-evasion API shipped until July 2026 and was removed, not merely defaulted off. Do not reintroduce it or anything like it, and do not add a paid tier, a hosted service or a "pro" path. If a user asks to route their text through such a service, decline and do the work here: the target is prose a person would put their name to, not a classifier score, and those two come apart the moment you optimise for the score.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 54 lines · 983 tokens per session scan A 2055cabc908b
verve-skill AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dbhq-uk/verve-skill (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 983 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
SeekMoney-ai CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for zykooooooooo/SeekMoney-ai, covering claude.md, project overview, development commands, development and production.
sentry-instrumentation AGENTS.md
Instructions for tortastudios/sentry-instrumentation, covering agents guide — sentry-instrumentation, what this repo is, this repo has no "skill registry", if you're a codex agent asked to install this skill and skill-enable block (copy into consumer agents.md).
Cerebro AGENTS.md
Instructions for AgenticFirst/Cerebro, covering cerebro — agent context, read before touching integrations, project layout, conventions a fresh agent would otherwise miss and running locally.
critical-thinking AGENTS.md
Instructions for Johna2an/critical-thinking, covering agents.md, repo map, install (for a user asking "should i install this?"), working in this repo and running an eval round.
idd-skill idd-resume.instructions.md
Instructions for kurone-kito/idd-skill, covering idd — resume phase, required inputs, step 0 — route classifier, operator-present release and step 1 — identify claim state.
hometax-doum AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for lbiz-partners/hometax-doum, covering claude.md — hometax-doum 개발 규칙 (하네스와 쌍), 규칙 ↔ 강제 장치 and 운용 메모.