agents-skeleton example.instructions.md

A project-specific set of instructions for writing or changing test files, including naming, independence, and coverage practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides developers when adding or modifying tests, especially how to name cases and test public behavior rather than internal implementation details.
Why use it?
It keeps tests consistent with the repository's conventions and helps catch regressions by encouraging the full test suite to run.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/example
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mcqua007/agents-skeleton

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 86 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 86 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 $0.00086 $0.00086
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured yesterday against content hash c5c808d0359e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-skeleton example.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.

.github/instructions/example.instructions.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Test File Instructions

When writing or modifying test files:

  • Follow the testing conventions in CONVENTIONS.md.
  • Use descriptive test names: should [behavior] when [condition].
  • Ensure tests are independent and can run in any order.
  • Prefer testing public behavior over internal implementation.
  • Run the full test suite to catch regressions.
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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c5c808d0359e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents-skeleton example.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mcqua007/agents-skeleton (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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.