skillpack copilot-instructions.md

A command-line tool that prepares and checks the files an open-source project needs to be discoverable and usable by coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an agent skill pack, scaffold plugin distribution files, or check whether a Rust CLI or library is ready for agent discovery.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of setting up agent instructions, plugin files, and supported commands. It also helps verify that the setup matches the tool's documented interface.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/nordicnode/skillpack/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nordicnode/skillpack

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 803 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 803 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00803 $0.00803
Opus 5 $0.00402 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00161 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00080 $0.00080

Measured yesterday against content hash c43a67e5addb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skillpack copilot-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skillpack

Generate and verify the agent-distribution layer for any OSS project

When to use

Invoke this tool when the user's task matches any of these triggers:

  • generate a claude code skill pack
  • verify agent-discoverability of a CLI or library
  • scaffold claude plugin distribution files

When NOT to use

  • Do not use this tool if the user only wants to read or inspect skillpack without performing an action — prefer reading docs directly.
  • Do not use this tool for tasks outside the Rust tooling it was built for.

Installation

Ensure skillpack is installed and available on PATH before invoking the examples below.

Invocation

The exact command an agent should run to use this tool:

skillpack init

Run skillpack --help to discover the available flags. Documented flags (verified by skillpack verify):

  • --non-interactive
  • --verbose
  • --debug
  • --log-level
  • --log-format
  • -h
  • --help
  • -V
  • --version

Subcommands

This CLI uses subcommands. Each one has its own flags (verified by skillpack verify):

  • init — flags: --root, --non-interactive, --author, --invocation, --import, --accept-warnings, --auto, --license, --trigger, --description, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --target, --force, --dry-run, --log-format, --template-dir, --format
  • verify — flags: --root, --format, --fix, --min-score, --watch, --template-dir, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • doctor — flags: --root, --format, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • update — flags: --root, --target, --force, --template-dir, --format, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • diff — flags: --root, --target, --force, --template-dir, --format, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • add — flags: --non-interactive, --root, --description, --trigger, --author, --invocation, --import, --license, --target, --force, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --template-dir, --format, --log-format
  • remove — flags: --root, --target, --force, --template-dir, --format, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • completions — flags: --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format
  • config — flags: --root, --validate, --verbose, --debug, --log-level, --log-format

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 803 tokens per session scan A c43a67e5addb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skillpack copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nordicnode/skillpack (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 803 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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 2026-08-31.