Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nikships/skills-registry. 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/nikships/skills-registry/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikships/skills-registryWrote 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/nikships/skills-registry/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nikships/skills-registry/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nikships/skills-registry/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/nikships/skills-registry/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nikships/skills-registry/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 | $0.00656 | $0.00656 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00328 | $0.00328 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00131 | $0.00131 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00066 | $0.00066 |
Grade A, and why
skills-registry 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 10d 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 — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Repository guidance
skills-registry has four user-facing surfaces:
| Surface | Distribution | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Installers and npm wrapper | install.sh, install.ps1, and npx skills-registry |
Download and launch the matching release binary. |
| Go CLI | GitHub Release binaries | Charmbracelet TUI and headless registry commands. |
| macOS app | Signed and notarized SwiftUI app | Native GUI for the same registry and configuration. |
| Website | Static Next.js site | Project landing page and product documentation. |
Layout and contracts
cli/is the Go module. Bare invocation opens the seven-step onboarding wizard when configuration is missing and the dashboard otherwise. Headless commands arebootstrap,list,search,get,sync,add,publish,remove, andupdate; all honor--json.- The wizard scans local skills, chooses a repository and visibility, performs the bulk push, installs the gateway skill, optionally cleans up local copies, and finishes with the registry URL.
bootstraplikewise ends with the registry URL and does not print client configuration. - The generated
skills-registry/SKILL.mdgateway is CLI-only: agents useskills-registry search,get, and other commands rather than a separate service. - Configuration lives at
~/.config/skills-registry/registry.toml(or$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/skills-registry/registry.toml). Cache and mirrors live under~/.cache/skills-registry/(or$XDG_CACHE_HOME/skills-registry/). mac-app/is the Swift package and app. Keep shared slug, frontmatter, fuzzy-search, GitHub-write, configuration, and gateway-template behavior aligned with the CLI.npm/is a thin launcher; it must not commit or bundle release binaries.website/is the static project site..mcpjam/is a supported agent directory. Keep MCPJam agent discovery support even though the project does not ship an MCP service.
Build and test
From cli/ run:
go vet ./...
gofmt -l .
staticcheck ./...
deadcode -test ./...
gocyclo -over 15 -ignore "_test" .
go test ./...
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 41 lines · 656 tokens per session scan A 0b1a7ba799d6
skills-registry AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nikships/skills-registry (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 656 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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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