instructions-management

instructions-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from attilaszasz/sdd-pilot. It costs 46 tokens per session (901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for maintaining a project's governing instructions: its non-negotiable principles, technology choices, testing rules, source layout, workflow, and governance. It also covers updating and versioning those instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update project instructions, check compliance, propagate governance changes into specifications, and version amendments.
Why use it?
It keeps project rules consistent as the codebase and specifications change. This reduces the risk that later decisions violate agreed principles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to update project instructions, check compliance, propagate governance changes into specifications, and version amendments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attilaszasz/sdd-pilot/instructions-management
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 attilaszasz/sdd-pilot --skill instructions-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/attilaszasz/sdd-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 901 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 23
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 42
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00046 $0.00901
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00090

Measured 7d ago against content hash 905ca4fea48a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instructions-management 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 7d 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.

.github/skills/instructions-management/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions Management Guide

What are the Project Instructions?

project-instructions.md contains non-negotiable project principles gating all downstream decisions. Highest authority in the SDD process.

Template Structure (v2)

The current template (v2) has these mandatory sections:

  1. ## Core Principles — 3–7 numbered non-negotiable principles with MUST/SHOULD rules and rationale
  2. ## Technology Stack — Language/Runtime, Frameworks, Storage, Infrastructure
  3. ## Testing & Quality Policy — Coverage Target, Required QC Categories, Test Strategy, Linting/Formatting. QC extracts enforcement rules from keywords in this section.
  4. ## Source Code Layout — Policy (ENFORCE_SRC_ROOT or PRESERVE_EXISTING_LAYOUT) and Convention
  5. ## Development Workflow — Branching, Commit Convention, CI Requirements
  6. ## Governance — Pre-filled defaults plus project-specific additions

Template version is tracked via <!-- template-version: 2 --> on the first line. Legacy templates (v1) lack structured sections and use [PRINCIPLE_N_NAME] placeholders.

Update Process

1. Load Current Project Instructions

  • Read project-instructions.md.
  • Identify all placeholder tokens: [ALL_CAPS_IDENTIFIER].
  • Adapt section count to user needs — fewer or more principles than template provides.
  • Check template version: <!-- template-version: 2 --> present → v2; missing → v1 (offer migration).

2. Collect Values for Placeholders

  • Use values from user input (conversation).
  • Infer from repo context (README, docs, prior versions) if not provided.
  • Auto-detect from manifest files (package.json, Cargo.toml, etc.) for Technology Stack and Testing & Quality Policy sections.
  • LAST_AMENDED_DATE: today if changes made.
  • Version: see references/versioning-rules.md.

3. Draft Updated Content

  • Replace every placeholder with concrete text.
  • Preserve heading hierarchy and <!-- template-version: 2 --> comment.
  • Principles: succinct name, non-negotiable rules, explicit rationale.
  • Technology Stack: at minimum Language/Runtime must be populated.
  • Testing & Quality Policy: use QC-recognised keywords so automated enforcement activates correctly. Keywords: lint, static analysis, code quality, coverage, security, vulnerability, OWASP, WCAG, accessibility, benchmark, performance.
  • Governance: amendment procedure, versioning policy, compliance expectations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 80 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 905ca4fea48a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

instructions-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository attilaszasz/sdd-pilot (96 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 901 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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