microsoft/waza is a Go command-line tool for building and evaluating AI agent skills through test suites, benchmarks, and model comparisons. It is for developers who need to measure and improve how reliably agent skills work. The catalogue entries are Waza's own skills, instructions, agent, and MCP integration.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/waza. 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/waza/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/wazaWrote 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/waza/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/waza/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/waza/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/waza/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/waza/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 | $0.06554 | $0.06554 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02622 | $0.02622 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01311 | $0.01311 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00655 | $0.00655 |
Grade A, and why
waza 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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 562 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions for waza Repository
Overview
This repository contains waza, a CLI tool for evaluating Agent Skills. Go is the only implementation, and it lives in the repository root. (An early Python implementation was removed in February 2026.)
When making changes, follow these guidelines to maintain consistency and quality.
Squad Team
See Meet the Squad for current owners, the pinned Squad
tooling, and upgrade/verification procedures. .squad/team.md and
.squad/routing.md define the active team; .squad/governance.md defines bounded
collaboration and independent review. Persisted GPT-first role assignments live
in .squad/config.json, with code-review and fallback rules in
.squad/model-policy.md. Historical model directives are superseded.
Project Tracking
Keep issues and tracking up to date:
- Tracking Issue: #66 - Waza Platform Roadmap
- PRD: docs/PRD.md
- When completing work, update the relevant GitHub issue
- Reference issue numbers in commit messages (e.g.,
feat: Add tokens command #47)
Code Structure (Go)
cmd/waza/ # CLI entrypoint
└── main.go # Command parsing and execution
internal/
├── config/ # Configuration with functional options
├── execution/ # AgentEngine interface and implementations
│ ├── engine.go # Core engine interface
│ ├── mock.go # Mock engine for testing
│ └── copilot.go # Copilot SDK integration
├── graders/ # Grader interface and Create() factory
│ ├── grader.go # Grader interface + Create() switch over grader kinds
│ ├── text_grader.go # Text grader (one file per grader kind)
│ └── file_grader.go # File grader
├── models/ # Data structures
│ ├── spec.go # EvalSpec (eval configuration)
│ ├── testcase.go # TestCase (task definition)
│ ├── grader_params.go # models.*GraderParameters types
│ └── outcome.go # EvaluationOutcome (results)
├── orchestration/ # EvalRunner for coordinating execution
│ └── runner.go # Eval orchestration
└── scoring/ # Skill-adherence heuristic scoring
└── scoring.go # Scorer / HeuristicScorer
go.mod
go.sum
Makefile # Build and test commands
.golangci.yml
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 Changed · +15 lines · +187 tokens per session 38f93d1fa53f
- 5d ago Changed · +245 lines · +3,638 tokens per session 5f68bf5ba684
- 6d ago Changed · +8 lines · +116 tokens per session aba242ade2c3
- 8d ago Changed · +5 lines · +58 tokens per session 7377865a59a0
- 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines · +196 tokens per session 2768a59c2167
- 1mo ago First seen · 278 lines · 2,359 tokens per session scan A cfdb6d98dd4b
waza AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/waza (1,424 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 6,554 tokens to every session, about $0.0262 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.
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