agent-ebpf extension-value-audit.instructions.md

agent-ebpf extension-value-audit.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ourobx/agent-ebpf. It costs 2,426 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

An evidence-based review of whether the Claude Skills Manager VS Code extension is producing useful results in a specific project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks recommendations, task focus, budget limits, MCP-Force Mode, syncing between agents, and automated hooks using project telemetry and observed sessions.
Why use it?
It helps separate visible benefits from machinery that only records data or runs unnoticed. The verdict can honestly conclude that the extension had no observable effect.

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/ourobx/agent-ebpf/extension-value-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ourobx/agent-ebpf

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md
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Per session 2,426 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,426 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.02426 $0.02426
Opus 5 $0.01213 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00485 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00243 $0.00243

Measured 3d ago against content hash 958474790ffc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

agent-ebpf extension-value-audit.instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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.github/instructions/extension-value-audit.instructions.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

extension-value-audit

Extension Value Audit

A verdict on whether the Claude Skills Manager VS Code extension (claude-skill-deployer) is doing anything real in this project — grounded in this project's own recorded telemetry plus what you, the agent running this skill, can actually recall observing in your own session. This is not a per-skill usage report (that's [[skill-usage-insights]]); it audits the extension's own machinery: adaptive recommendations, task-focus, budget gating, MCP-Force Mode, cross-agent sync, and its hooks pipeline.

Do not be diplomatic for its own sake. "This did nothing observable" is a legitimate, acceptable conclusion if the evidence says so. The point of this skill is to catch exactly the failure mode where a mechanism runs, writes data nobody reads, and nobody ever notices — that pattern has been the single most common finding in this extension's own reliability history. Padding a negative finding with hedging defeats the purpose.

1. What the extension claims to do

Judge everything below against these stated goals — not against "is telemetry present," which is a much lower bar:

  • Adaptive skill installation/recommendation. Detects the project's stack and proposes/installs relevant skills, with a confidence score that's supposed to improve as it learns what gets accepted vs. ignored.
  • Task-focus. Keeps only skills relevant to the current task loaded, auto-disabling the rest, so the agent isn't carrying dead weight in context.
  • Budget/cost gating. Tracks spend and can auto-disable expensive ("high-tier") skills once a threshold is crossed.
  • MCP-Force Mode. A security posture that routes file/shell access through an allow-listed MCP filesystem server instead of raw native tools.
  • Cross-agent sync. Keeps skill sets and config consistent across Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and GitHub Copilot when a project uses more than one.
  • Dashboards/visibility. A cost/usage dashboard, and (in newer versions) a session-end summary — the extension's own attempt to make its telemetry actually reach the user instead of sitting unread in a .jsonl file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 3d ago First seen · 168 lines · 2,426 tokens per session scan C 958474790ffc

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agent-ebpf extension-value-audit.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ourobx/agent-ebpf (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,426 tokens to every session, about $0.0121 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.