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/microsoft/apm/doc-syncgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apmWhat 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 | $0.00345 | $0.00345 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00172 | $0.00172 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00069 | $0.00069 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00034 |
Grade A, and why
apm doc-sync.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 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.
What it actually says
Rules to keep documentation up-to-date
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Rule 1: Whenever changes are made to the codebase, it is important to also update the documentation to reflect those changes. You must ensure that the following documentation is updated: Starlight content pages in docs/src/content/docs/. Each page uses Starlight frontmatter (title, sidebar order). Cross-page links use relative paths (e.g.,
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Rule 2: The main README.md file is a special case that requires user approval before changes, so, if there is a deviation in the code that affects what is stated in the main README.md file, you must warn the user and describe the drift and README.md update proposal, and wait for confirmation before updating it.
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Rule 3: Documentation is meant to be very simple and straightforward, we must avoid bloating it with unnecessary information. It must be pragmatic, to the point, succinct and practical.
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Rule 4: When changing CLI commands, flags, dependency formats, authentication flow, policy schema, or primitive file formats, also update the corresponding resource files in packages/apm-guide/.apm/skills/apm-usage/. Map changes to the correct file: commands.md for CLI changes, dependencies.md for reference formats, authentication.md for token resolution, governance.md for policy schema, package-authoring.md for primitive formats.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 15 lines · 345 tokens per session scan A bb3816254f8d
apm doc-sync.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,668 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 345 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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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