Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to srinitude/skills. 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/srinitude/skills/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srinitude/skillsWrote 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/srinitude/skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/srinitude/skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/srinitude/skills/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/srinitude/skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/srinitude/skills/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 | $0.01510 | $0.01510 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00604 | $0.00604 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00302 | $0.00302 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00151 | $0.00151 |
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 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 — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Repository rules
Goal
Build and publish portable Agent Skills from one canonical skill tree.
Every supported client must load the same skill bytes.
This file is the one rule set for the repository and its skills. It merges the
original repository rules with the generation contract that ships inside
skills/skill-factory/references/generation-contract.md. Where the two rule
sets conflicted, the generation contract's rule holds, with two exceptions
recorded below: the description limit follows the agentskills.io specification,
and new skills start at metadata.version: "0.1.0".
Source layout
skills/<name>/SKILL.mdowns each skill body.- Put optional detail in
references/, executable code inscripts/, worked examples inexamples/, and evaluation inputs inevals/. - A skill may also bundle
assets/templates, tests inscripts/tests/, and its ownmise.tomltask graph so it verifies itself with its ownmise run ci. - Keep file references relative to the skill root and at most one subdirectory deep.
- Don't copy a skill body into a client integration.
- Put generated local output only in
.artifacts/.
Skill contract
- Follow every current page listed in
evidence/agentskills-pages.json. - Each skill directory name must equal its frontmatter
name. - Registry skill names use lowercase letters, digits, and single hyphens. The limit is 64 characters. Skills generated for use outside this registry may use the wider generation-contract pattern
^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]*$. - Descriptions are non-empty and at most 1024 characters, the agentskills.io limit.
- Descriptions start with
Use when, state when the skill applies, and carry the keywords a user would type. They must not summarize the skill's procedure. metadata.authorisKiren Srinivasan.- New skills start at
metadata.version: "0.1.0". - Each skill owns its version. It must not depend on a package, integration, GitHub release, or another skill version.
- Metadata values are strings.
- The factory requires
metadata.scopeto beuserorprojecton every created or updated output. This describes intended availability independently of source-registry location. Untouched legacy skills may omit it during inspection. The factory generation contract owns scope resolution and acceptance; its linked variant workflow owns adaptation and independent maintenance. - Keep
SKILL.mdbelow 200 lines. Move optional detail out before 150 lines. - Tell the reader exactly when to load each reference.
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 · +1 lines · +65 tokens per session f1aec065383d
- 2mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 1,445 tokens per session scan A e824f56d7ce0
skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository srinitude/skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,510 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 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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