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/vscode/ossgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscodeWhat 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 | $0.00286 | $0.00286 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00143 | $0.00143 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00057 | $0.00057 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00029 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
vscode oss.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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- nyrve oss.instructions.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
OSS License Review
When reviewing changes to these files, verify:
ThirdPartyNotices.txt
- Every new entry has a license type header (e.g., "MIT License", "Apache License 2.0")
- License text is present and non-empty for every entry
- License text matches the declared license type (e.g., MIT-declared entry actually contains MIT license text, not Apache)
- Removed entries are cleanly removed (no leftover fragments)
- Entries are sorted alphabetically by package name
cglicenses.json
- New overrides have a justification comment
- No obviously stale entries for packages no longer in the dependency tree
cgmanifest.json
- Package versions match what's actually installed
- Repository URLs are valid and point to real source repositories
- Newly added license identifiers should use SPDX format where possible
- License identifiers match the corresponding ThirdPartyNotices.txt entries
Red Flags
- Any newly added copyleft license (GPL, LGPL, AGPL) — flag immediately (existing copyleft entries like ffmpeg are pre-approved)
- Any "UNKNOWN" or placeholder license text
- License text that appears truncated or corrupted
- A package declared as MIT but with Apache/BSD/other license text (or vice versa)
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 · 35 lines · 286 tokens per session scan A fe4dfb436f27
vscode oss.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (190,061 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 286 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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