agent-ebpf: Instructions file for Claude Code

v2/.github/instructions/skill-official-updater.instructions.md

skill-official-updater is an instructions file for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot from ourobx/agent-ebpf. It costs 1,581 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

An instruction set for checking and synchronising official Anthropic skills from GitHub into a local skills library. It tracks the source revisions and protects custom skills from being overwritten.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check for updates at session start, record source revisions, and add or update selected official skills in the repository.
Why use it?
It keeps managed copies current while distinguishing official files from locally written or edited skills.

Instructions file for Claude CodeGitHub Copilot

Written for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot: SessionStart hook event, but also a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is ourobx/agent-ebpf's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and 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 →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ourobx/agent-ebpf. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourobx/agent-ebpf/main/v2/.github/instructions/skill-official-updater.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ourobx/agent-ebpf

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5.5 $0.00632 $0.00632
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00316 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00158 $0.00158

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Security

Grade C, and why

skill-official-updater 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 1mo 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.

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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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v2/.github/instructions/skill-official-updater.instructions.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skill-official-updater

Official Anthropic Skills Updater

Keeps a local copy of Anthropic's official skills (https://github.com/anthropics/skills, under skills/) in sync with this repo's skills_library/, without silently overwriting unrelated or hand-edited skills.

State file

skills_library/.official-skills-state.json (create if missing):

{
  "repoSha": "<last-synced commit SHA of anthropics/skills>",
  "skills": {
    "pdf": "<commit SHA of skills/pdf/ at last sync>",
    "docx": "<commit SHA of skills/docx/ at last sync>"
  }
}

Only skill names listed under skills are "managed" by this updater - a same-named skill in skills_library/ that ISN'T listed there is assumed to be a hand-written/customized skill and must never be overwritten without an explicit user decision.

1. Cheap check (every session)

Automation: When the Claude Skills extension is active and this workspace has skills_library/, it installs a Claude Code SessionStart hook (official-skills-watch.js) that runs the check below on startup, resume, and clear. If updates exist, the hook injects context telling you to read this skill and sync immediately — do not ask the user which skills to pull.

Manual / fallback (same logic):

git ls-remote https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git HEAD

Compare the returned SHA to repoSha in the state file (treat a missing file as "no state yet"). If unchanged, say nothing further - this step should be silent and near-instant.

VS Code: Claude Skills: Check Official Anthropic Skill Updates runs the same check from the Command Palette. Enable Official Skills Session Check re-installs the SessionStart hook if needed.

2. When the repo SHA has changed (or no state file yet)

List the current skill directories upstream:

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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.

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  2. 1mo ago Changed cc792faf9d89
  3. 1mo ago Changed 50b8b24f00f0
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 1,581 tokens per session scan C 2c38e9b99725

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skill-official-updater is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ourobx/agent-ebpf (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,581 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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