agent-ebpf: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/skill-creator.instructions.md

skill-creator is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ourobx/agent-ebpf. It costs 7,552 tokens per session, scanned C, a copy of agentic-playwright skill-creator.instructions.md, MIT.

A guide for creating, improving, and measuring coding-agent skills. It covers drafting instructions, testing them with example prompts, reviewing results, and refining the skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a skill, edit an existing one, improve its description, run evaluations, and compare performance across test prompts.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to check whether a skill triggers correctly and produces useful results instead of relying only on intuition.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is ourobx/agent-ebpf's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on agent-ebpf itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-ebpf configures →

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Security

Grade C, and why

skill-creator 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 today.

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.

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How it starts

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skill-creator

Skill Creator

A skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them.

At a high level, the process of creating a skill goes like this:

  • Decide what you want the skill to do and roughly how it should do it
  • Write a draft of the skill
  • Create a few test prompts and run claude-with-access-to-the-skill on them
  • Help the user evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively
    • While the runs happen in the background, draft some quantitative evals if there aren't any (if there are some, you can either use as is or modify if you feel something needs to change about them). Then explain them to the user (or if they already existed, explain the ones that already exist)
    • Use the eval-viewer/generate_review.py script to show the user the results for them to look at, and also let them look at the quantitative metrics
  • Rewrite the skill based on feedback from the user's evaluation of the results (and also if there are any glaring flaws that become apparent from the quantitative benchmarks)
  • Repeat until you're satisfied
  • Expand the test set and try again at larger scale

Your job when using this skill is to figure out where the user is in this process and then jump in and help them progress through these stages. So for instance, maybe they're like "I want to make a skill for X". You can help narrow down what they mean, write a draft, write the test cases, figure out how they want to evaluate, run all the prompts, and repeat.

On the other hand, maybe they already have a draft of the skill. In this case you can go straight to the eval/iterate part of the loop.

Of course, you should always be flexible and if the user is like "I don't need to run a bunch of evaluations, just vibe with me", you can do that instead.

Then after the skill is done (but again, the order is flexible), you can also run the skill description improver, which we have a whole separate script for, to optimize the triggering of the skill.

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skill-creator is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ourobx/agent-ebpf (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 7,552 tokens to every session, about $0.0378 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). It is 89% identical to agentic-playwright skill-creator.instructions.md, differing in 979 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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