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/holobiomicslab/asb-skill-collections/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collectionsWhat 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 | $0.00379 | $0.00379 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00189 | $0.00189 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00076 | $0.00076 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
asb-skill-collections copilot-instructions.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 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.
What it actually says
GitHub Copilot — ASB Metabolomics skills
This repository publishes the ASB Metabolomics Skill Collection
(collections/metabolomics/v2/): 5,859 evidence-grounded skills over 909
software tools for computational LC-MS/MS metabolomics, each derived from a
peer-reviewed method paper.
Read AGENTS.md for the full install + use protocol. In short:
- Skills are plain Markdown at
collections/metabolomics/v2/leaves/<slug>/SKILL.md(onlyskills/_routerand the licence-gate skill sit underskills/, because a plugin host advertises everything there into the session prompt) (YAML frontmatter + body). The entry point isskills/_router/SKILL.md. - To find a skill, search the indexes at
collections/metabolomics/v2/:skills_index.json(by EDAM IRI, tool name, or keyword over name/description) andtools_index.json. Prefer EDAM/tool matches over keyword. - To apply a skill, open its
SKILL.mdand follow the procedure; the frontmattertools+tools_index.jsongive canonical install URLs. - To verify a claim/parameter, ground it against the source paper with
scripts/perspicacite_kb_bind.py query --collection collections/metabolomics/v2 --skill <slug> --question "..."(the skill→paper KB map is inkb_bundle.json).
When suggesting metabolomics analysis code, prefer the tools and procedures these
skills describe, and cite the skill's derived_from DOI. The public release is
metabolomics only; ignore other domains under collections/.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 26 lines · 379 tokens per session scan A e25b8700b891
asb-skill-collections copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections (15 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 379 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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