Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to TechSpokes/skill-base-template. 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/TechSpokes/skill-base-template/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TechSpokes/skill-base-templateWrote 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/techspokes/skill-base-template/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/techspokes/skill-base-template/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/techspokes/skill-base-template/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/techspokes/skill-base-template/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/techspokes/skill-base-template/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 | $0.01363 | $0.01363 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00545 | $0.00545 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00273 | $0.00273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00136 | $0.00136 |
Grade A, and why
skill-base-template 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 — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions for skill-base-template - Skill Repository Bootstrap
Summary
This repository is in bootstrap mode. Build a standalone agent skill repository from user material placed in .intake/, then convert the repository to maintenance mode by rewriting README.md, rewriting AGENTS.md, and removing .template/.
Goal Stack
Global Goal
Create skill repositories that let future agents perform specialized work reliably without needing the original builder's private context.
Purpose: A skill only has value if another agent can load it later, understand when it applies, execute the workflow, and maintain it as the domain changes.
Communication Goal
Give bootstrap agents enough purpose, constraints, and rationale to transform raw intake into a clean skill repository without overfitting to the template's temporary structure.
Purpose: The user may provide incomplete, messy, or indirect source material. The agent must make local design decisions while preserving the user's intent and leaving a maintainable result.
Task Goal
Use .intake/ to build the generated skill under skills/<name>/, then remove bootstrap scaffolding and leave maintenance instructions for the generated repository.
Purpose: The final repository should stand alone. Future agents should maintain the skill itself, not this template's construction process.
Values
- Prefer downstream agent autonomy over rigid mechanical compliance.
- Prefer explicit rationale over unexplained rules.
- Prefer clean final repositories over preserving bootstrap history.
- Prefer portable skill conventions over host-specific metadata unless local needs justify the tradeoff.
- Prefer transformed durable knowledge over copying raw intake.
- Prefer validation by tools where possible and documented judgment where tools cannot decide.
Decision Criteria
When instructions appear to conflict, choose the option that best preserves the final repository's ability to function as a standalone skill repository. If a rule protects release cleanliness, user privacy, or skill portability, treat it as higher priority than convenience.
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 · 105 lines · 1,363 tokens per session scan A 4e1c8dc7c6fa
skill-base-template AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TechSpokes/skill-base-template (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,363 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 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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