Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to sbroenne/skillpm. 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/sbroenne/skillpm/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sbroenne/skillpmWrote 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/sbroenne/skillpm/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sbroenne/skillpm/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sbroenne/skillpm/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/sbroenne/skillpm/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sbroenne/skillpm/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 | $0.01540 | $0.01540 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00616 | $0.00616 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00308 | $0.00308 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00154 | $0.00154 |
Grade A, and why
skillpm 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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Instructions for skillpm
What is skillpm?
skillpm is npm for Agent Skills. It builds on top of npm to add skill-awareness: resolving skill dependency trees, scanning for installed skills, and wiring them into agent directories.
Design principle: stay as close to npm as possible. skillpm should feel like npm. Same package.json, same node_modules, same package-lock.json, same registry. skillpm only adds what npm cannot do by itself: discovering installed skills and linking them into agent directories.
skillpm only manages npm-hosted skills. For broader project-level agent packaging or non-npm sources, point users to APM or to the underlying host-specific tools.
The project is developed in TypeScript.
Key dependencies (don't reimplement — use these)
| Package | Type | What it does | How skillpm uses it |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | CLI (shell out) | Package management, dependency resolution, registry, lockfiles, caching | All package operations — skillpm install calls npm install under the hood |
skills |
CLI (shell out) | Installs canonical skill copies and agent links | npx [email protected] add <path> -y --json — checks structured project-install results |
Official skills-ref |
Python CLI (shell out) | Validates SKILL.md against the Agent Skills spec | skills-ref validate <path> from PATH during skillpm publish; not the third-party npm port |
Before writing any new code, check whether one of these tools already does it.
Requires Node.js 22.20.0 or later. Keep the upstream CLI version pinned in
src/utils/exec.ts and recheck its JSON contract before upgrading.
Publishing also requires Python 3.11+ and the official validator on PATH.
What are Agent Skills?
Agent Skills are modular, reusable packages of instructions, scripts, and resources that AI agents can dynamically load to extend their capabilities. They follow an open standard adopted by Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Augment, and others.
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 Changed · +16 lines · +244 tokens per session 9445ff9d6285
- 2mo ago First seen · 139 lines · 1,296 tokens per session scan A 5504a731a7af
skillpm copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sbroenne/skillpm (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,540 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 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.
skillpm copilot-instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| skillpm copilot-instructions.mdsbroenne/skillpm | Instructions file | 14 | yesterday | MIT | A | 1,540 | GitHub Copilot |
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