Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk. 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/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdkWrote 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/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/copilot-instructions/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/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk/copilot-instructions.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 | $0.02175 | $0.02175 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00870 | $0.00870 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00435 | $0.00435 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00217 | $0.00217 |
Grade A, and why
agentskills-sdk 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Working in this repository
Poetry monorepo. Eight maintained packages, versioned and released together.
| Path | Package |
|---|---|
packages/core/agentskills-core |
Registry, SkillProvider ABC, spec validation, snapshots, trust, policy, refresh. Only required dependency is pyyaml. |
packages/adapters/agentskills-adapters |
Import common agent instruction formats as native skills |
packages/providers/agentskills-fs |
Local filesystem provider |
packages/providers/agentskills-http |
Static HTTP / CDN provider |
packages/integrations/agentskills-mcp-server |
Native MCP Skills server, MCP SDK 2.2+ |
packages/retrieval/agentskills-retrieval |
Query-time skill selection: BM25 and embedding rankers |
packages/tools/agentskills-tools |
agentskills command: init, validate, lint, inspect, serve |
packages/testing/agentskills-testing |
Provider conformance suite, InMemorySkillProvider, pytest fixtures |
Planning lives in docs/ROADMAP.md, per-milestone specs in docs/issues/, settled
decisions in docs/adr/.
The v0.7 development line is native-Skills-only. Retired framework packages, the
Agent Framework bridge, and legacy MCP tools/resources remain only in the v0.6.0
tag and published artifacts, not an in-tree archive. Do not reintroduce them as
fallbacks. create_mcp_server is async. See docs/mcp-migration.md for host gaps.
Branch workflow
Never commit to main. For every unit of work:
git checkout main
git pull --prune
git checkout -b <type>/<slug> # fix/ feat/ perf/ docs/ chore/
# implement, test, lint
git push -u origin <branch>
The maintainer merges pull requests manually. Do not create, update, or comment on
issues or pull requests, and do not use the gh CLI for that. After a merge, sync
main and cut a fresh branch for the next item.
One roadmap item (or one tightly coupled cluster) per branch. If scope drifts, rename the branch or squash-merge under a title that matches what actually landed.
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.
- 12d ago Changed · +3 lines · +50 tokens per session 866088b23b7d
- 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 2,125 tokens per session scan A 35e004545a30
agentskills-sdk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pratikxpanda/agentskills-sdk (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,175 tokens to every session, about $0.0087 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 2026-08-30.
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