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.
npx agentmods add instructions/techspokes/skill-base-template/markdowngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TechSpokes/skill-base-templateWhat 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 | $0.00270 | $0.00270 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00135 | $0.00135 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00054 | $0.00054 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00027 |
Grade A, and why
skill-base-template markdown.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 yesterday.
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.
What it actually says
Markdown Instructions
Goal
Keep Markdown files readable by humans, AI agents, GitHub, IDEs, and simple tooling.
Rules
- Use one H1 title per file.
- Maintain heading hierarchy without skipped levels.
- Use real headings instead of bold text as headings.
- Keep each paragraph and list item on one physical source line and rely on soft wrapping in the reader.
- Give each paragraph one idea; separate unrelated ideas into separate paragraphs.
- Separate paragraphs, lists, headings, code fences, and other Markdown blocks with one empty line.
- Do not hard wrap prose to a fixed column width.
- Use flat lists.
- Avoid nested lists.
- Use dashes for unordered lists.
- Use numbered lists only when order matters.
- Add language identifiers to fenced code blocks.
- Use
bashfor portable shell commands. - Use
textfor command output. - Use
powershellonly when the command uses PowerShell-specific syntax. - Avoid horizontal rules.
- Avoid em dash punctuation.
- Use relative links for repository files.
- Define specialized terms before relying on them.
Rationale
Markdown in this repository is read by humans, AI agents, GitHub, IDEs, and validation tools. Structural Markdown survives across those readers better than visual formatting.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 270 tokens per session scan A f3e6ec5482a3
skill-base-template markdown.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TechSpokes/skill-base-template (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 270 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-31.
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