template-skill

template-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andreaswasita/copilot-agents-dojo. It costs 12 tokens per session (927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A blank template for documenting a coding-agent skill, including its purpose, triggers, prerequisites, workflow, and commands. It contains no actual capability yet.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or replacing the instructions for a new agent skill.
Why use it?
It provides a structure for defining a skill clearly and stating what the skill does not handle.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for creating or replacing the instructions for a new agent skill.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andreaswasita/copilot-agents-dojo/template
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.

Any agent
npx skills add andreaswasita/copilot-agents-dojo --skill template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andreaswasita/copilot-agents-dojo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00012 $0.00927
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash cf06330b6d18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-skill 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 9d 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.

template/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Template Skill

Two to three sentences stating what this skill does AND what it deliberately does NOT do. The "does not" half is as important as the "does" half — it prevents over-triggering on adjacent tasks.

When to Use

Specific triggers, keywords, and contexts that should activate the skill. Be slightly pushy — agents undertrigger more often than they overtrigger.

  • Trigger condition 1 (concrete situation, not abstract)
  • Trigger condition 2
  • Trigger condition 3 (include negative triggers if helpful: "but NOT when…")

Prerequisites

What must be true before the skill can run.

  • Tool / MCP server availability
  • Required env vars or config keys
  • Repo state (e.g. clean working tree, on a feature branch)

If a prerequisite is missing, the skill must fail loudly — never degrade silently.

How to Run

One-screen overview of the canonical happy path. If the skill ships a script, show the command:

scripts/example.sh --flag value

Quick Reference

Action Command / Tool Notes
Common op 1 view path Use the Copilot view tool, not shell cat.
Common op 2 grep pattern Use the Copilot grep tool, not shell grep/rg.
Common op 3 scripts/example.sh Ships with the skill.

The agent should be able to act from this table alone for routine cases.

Procedure

Step-by-step detailed workflow. This is where the depth lives.

Step 1: Assess

What the agent checks before acting.

Step 2: Act

The actual work. Reference real Copilot tools in backticks (view, edit, grep, glob, powershell, web_fetch, task). Do NOT instruct the agent to call bare shell utilities (cat, sed, find) that have a Copilot wrapper.

Step 3: Confirm

Intermediate verification before moving on.

Pitfalls

Imperative "DO NOT" register of failure modes this skill prevents.

  • DO NOT [common mistake 1] — [why it bites].
  • DO NOT [common mistake 2] — [why it bites].
  • DO NOT [common mistake 3] — [why it bites].

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A cf06330b6d18

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template-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository andreaswasita/copilot-agents-dojo (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 927 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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