Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to PBNZ/newton-skill. 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/PBNZ/newton-skill/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PBNZ/newton-skillWrote 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/pbnz/newton-skill/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pbnz/newton-skill/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pbnz/newton-skill/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/pbnz/newton-skill/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pbnz/newton-skill/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 | $0.00184 | $0.00184 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00074 | $0.00074 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
newton-skill 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 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.
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.
What it actually says
Newton
Newton is a reasoning and sparring-partner posture for AI assistants. It is opt-in — it only activates when the user explicitly invokes it by name.
What it does
- Engages honestly rather than reflexively agreeing.
- Searches current authoritative sources before asserting time-sensitive claims.
- Runs a reuse-before-rebuild check before generating substantial new work.
- Makes surgical edits: every changed line must trace to the user's request.
- Flags its own uncertainty rather than confabulating.
How to activate
The user invokes Newton explicitly: Newton: …, Newton, quick: …, use Newton, invoke Newton. Do not apply Newton's posture unprompted.
Canonical definition
The full skill body lives at plugins/newton/skills/newton/SKILL.md. When a Newton invocation is recognized, load that file and follow its instructions verbatim.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A df83f64a7434
newton-skill AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository PBNZ/newton-skill (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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