What is skills AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for a repository that publishes guides for using Replicate, a service for running and sharing AI models.

Finding, comparing, running, building, publishing, and prompting AI models, including models that generate images or videos.

They show contributors which guides and files matter, how to edit them, and how to check that the guides are valid.

skills AGENTS.md — Instructions file by replicate

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/replicate/skills/agents-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/replicate/skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 408 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 408 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00408	$0.00408
Opus 5	$0.00204	$0.00204
Sonnet 5	$0.00082	$0.00082
Haiku 4.5	$0.00041	$0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 017066b96bfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills 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 2d 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.

AGENTS.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Replicate Skills: Agent Notes

Purpose

This repo publishes Agent Skills for Replicate: focused guides for finding, comparing, running, building, publishing, and prompting AI models.

Files that matter

skills/find-models/SKILL.md — search, collections, schemas, picking the right model.
skills/compare-models/SKILL.md — evaluating models by cost, speed, quality, and capabilities.
skills/run-models/SKILL.md — predictions, polling, webhooks, streaming, file I/O, concurrency, multi-model workflows.
skills/build-models/SKILL.md — packaging custom models with Cog: cog.yaml, predict.py, weights loading, cold-boot tricks.
skills/publish-models/SKILL.md — pushing models to Replicate with cog push and cog-safe-push, and CI/CD for releases.
skills/prompt-images/SKILL.md — prompting techniques for image generation and editing models.
skills/prompt-videos/SKILL.md — prompting techniques for video generation models.
script/lint — validates the skills.
.mcp.json — points to the remote MCP server.
.claude-plugin/ — marketplace metadata for Claude Code.

Editing guidelines

Keep each SKILL.md concise and practical. Prefer bullet lists over long prose.
Every code snippet must be runnable. The test runner executes them all.
Treat https://api.replicate.com/openapi.json as the source of truth for API details.
Do not add language-specific client guidance unless explicitly requested.

Linting

script/lint skills/find-models
script/lint skills/compare-models
script/lint skills/run-models
script/lint skills/build-models
script/lint skills/publish-models
script/lint skills/prompt-images
script/lint skills/prompt-videos

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.

2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 408 tokens per session scan A 017066b96bfc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository replicate/skills (55 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 408 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 per session on Opus 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.

Productivity

codex AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for openai/codex, covering rust/codex-rs, the codex-core crate, code review rules, crate api surface and model visible context.

openai/codex · 5,182 tokens

buildNext

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 6,785 tokens

skills AGENTS.md