Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dongshuyan/compass-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-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/dongshuyan/compass-skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dongshuyan/compass-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dongshuyan/compass-skills/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dongshuyan/compass-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dongshuyan/compass-skills/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00980 | $0.00980 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00392 | $0.00392 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00196 | $0.00196 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
Grade A, and why
compass-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 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 — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
COMPASS Agent Adapter
This repository contains agent-agnostic SKILL.md skills. Use this file when your agent does not have native skills support, or when it needs explicit rules for discovering and applying the skills in skills/.
Discovery
- Available skills live under
skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. - Read each skill's YAML frontmatter
nameanddescriptionto decide whether it applies. - Prefer explicit user invocation such as
$task-clarifier,$task-forest,$pause-and-resume,$session-handoff-prompt,$user-profile-keeper,$run-history-skill-builder,$run-history-skill-upgrader,$clear-communication, or$assess-interview-candidate. - If no skill clearly applies, continue normally; do not force a skill.
Loading Protocol
When a skill applies:
- Read the full
SKILL.mdbefore acting. - Resolve relative paths from the directory that contains that
SKILL.md. - Read referenced files under
references/only when the skill tells you to or when the current task needs them. - Run scripts from the skill's own
scripts/directory instead of retyping large logic. - Keep generated runtime data out of the repository unless the user explicitly asks to commit it.
Invocation Examples
Use $task-clarifier to align this task before implementation.
Use $task-forest to update the task graph for this workspace.
Use $pause-and-resume to pause this unfinished task in the current conversation; later, continue it from the checkpoint.
Use $session-handoff-prompt to create a continuation prompt for a fresh session.
Use $user-profile-keeper to initialize or update my local profile.
Use $run-history-skill-builder to turn this completed workflow into a new skill package.
Use $run-history-skill-upgrader to plan a safe upgrade for this existing skill from recent run evidence.
Use $clear-communication to explain the supplied material for the current reader while preserving facts, conditions, uncertainty, and verification state.
Use $assess-interview-candidate to turn an authorized resume and job description into an auditable local interview report.
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 Changed · +2 lines · +67 tokens per session a8909edfa28e
- 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 913 tokens per session scan A 52833582d307
compass-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dongshuyan/compass-skills (761 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 980 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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