Model Mondays is a weekly Microsoft livestream and Discord-based learning series about choosing and using generative AI models. Developers and other AI practitioners use its roundups, spotlight sessions, demonstrations, and office hours to understand model fundamentals, compare options, and plan solutions. The catalogue contains an instruction related to the series.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/model-mondays. 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/microsoft/model-mondays/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/model-mondaysWrote 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/microsoft/model-mondays/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/model-mondays/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/model-mondays/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/microsoft/model-mondays/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/model-mondays/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 | $0.01008 | $0.01008 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00403 | $0.00403 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00202 | $0.00202 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00101 | $0.00101 |
Grade A, and why
model-mondays 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 7d 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 — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Model Mondays Agent Guide
Repository purpose
This repository publishes Model Mondays livestream episodes and Foundry Friday on-demand AMAs about AI models, Microsoft Foundry, and agent development.
Canonical structure
data/seasons.json: season metadata.data/livestreams.json: Model Mondays episode metadata.data/amas.json: independently numbered Foundry Friday AMA metadata.data/speakers.json,data/topics.json,data/resources.json: shared metadata.docs/model-mondays/: episode pages.docs/foundry-fridays/: AMA pages and the canonical AMA index.docs/assets/model-mondays/: episode banners.docs/assets/foundry-fridays/: AMA banners..2025/: historical source archive; do not add current content here.
Checked-in JSON and published Markdown must agree. docs/assets/ is the canonical public asset tree.
Naming conventions
Model Mondays
- Page:
YYYY-MM-DD-sNN-eNN.md - Banner:
S<season>-E<episode>.png - Example:
2026-09-28-s04-e07.mdandS4-E7.png
Foundry Friday AMAs
Foundry Fridays is an on-demand initiative, not a season-driven weekly series.
- ID:
ama-NNN - Display number:
AMA #NNN - Page:
YYYY-MM-DD-ama-NNN.md - Banner:
AMA-NNN.png - Example:
2026-09-25-ama-049.mdandAMA-049.png
AMA numbers are global, unique, and sequential. An AMA may optionally link to a related episode, but no relationship is required.
Current program state
- Season 1: 8 episodes, completed.
- Season 2: 13 episodes, completed.
- Season 3: 17 episodes, completed.
- Season 4: 12 episodes, August 10-November 9, 2026, active.
- Foundry Fridays: 49 numbered entries through AMA #049.
Season 4 is titled Model Spotlights for Agent Builders.
Content rules
- Use supplied, approved source material only. Never invent dates, speakers, biographies, links, resources, or event details.
- Omit unavailable optional sections instead of publishing
TBA, placeholder links, or template prose. - For Season 4, final banners are authoritative for date, title, host, and displayed guests.
- Use relative links for repository content and images.
- Use “Microsoft Foundry” in prose. Existing URL paths containing
azure/ai-foundryremain valid. - Keep episode and AMA pages concise when only core metadata is available.
- Update the corresponding JSON record, public index, and statistics whenever content is added or renamed.
- Preserve historical content unless a migration explicitly calls for a clean break.
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.
- 7d ago Changed 94803c1fd8fd
- 1mo ago Changed · -291 lines · -2,377 tokens per session 8f65e0866e0e
- 2mo ago First seen · 403 lines · 3,385 tokens per session scan A ac9954ccae0b
model-mondays AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/model-mondays (306 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,008 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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.
model-mondays AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| model-mondays AGENTS.mdmicrosoft/model-mondays | Instructions file | 306 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 1,008 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vibe-coding-prompt-template backend.instructions.mdKhazP/vibe-coding-prompt-template | Instructions file | 3.2k | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 139 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |