What is import-existing-ai-config?

A converter for bringing configuration from Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or Codex into universal-ai-config templates. These configurations include instructions, skills, agents, and hooks—automatic actions triggered by events during an AI session.

Use it to import rules, skills, agents, and event hooks from an existing AI coding setup.

It avoids rewriting existing AI-tool settings by hand when moving them into a shared format. You choose the source tool, and it scans the relevant configuration files.

import-existing-ai-config — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by fabis94

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 fabis94/universal-ai-config --skill import-existing-ai-config

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabis94/universal-ai-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,242 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.04242
Opus 5	$0.00018	$0.02121
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00848
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00424

Measured 12d ago against content hash 601271dd9a48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

import-existing-ai-config scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

- MCP: `.vscode/mcp.json` — JSON with `servers` wrapper (not `mcpServers`), may include `inputs` array for interactive secret prompts

.universal-ai-config/skills/import-existing-ai-config/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Import Existing AI Config

Convert existing target-specific AI configuration files into universal-ai-config templates. The user must specify which target to import from.

Usage

The user should specify the source target: claude, copilot, cursor, or codex.

Import Process

1. Identify Source Files

Scan the target's config directory for existing configuration files:

Claude (.claude/):

Instructions: .claude/rules/*.md — each file has description and optional paths frontmatter
Skills: .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md — skill directories with frontmatter (name, description, allowed-tools, model, context, agent, disable-model-invocation, user-invocable, argument-hint, hooks). Skill directories may also contain extra supporting files (references, examples, scripts) alongside SKILL.md.
Agents: .claude/agents/*.md — agent files with frontmatter (name, description, tools, disallowedTools, permissionMode, skills, hooks, memory, model)
Hooks: .claude/settings.json → hooks key — JSON with PascalCase event names (SessionStart, SessionEnd, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, PostToolUseFailure, Stop, SubagentStart, SubagentStop, PreCompact, PermissionRequest, Notification)
MCP: .mcp.json — JSON with mcpServers wrapper containing server configs (type, command, args, env, url, headers)
Commands (deprecated): .claude/commands/*.md — single-file slash commands with optional frontmatter (description, allowed-tools, argument-hint, model). May include subdirectories for namespacing (e.g. .claude/commands/frontend/component.md — command name is component). Body may use $ARGUMENTS placeholder, ! prefix for bash execution, and @ prefix for file references.

Copilot (.github/):

Instructions: .github/copilot-instructions.md (always-apply) and .github/instructions/*.instructions.md (with applyTo frontmatter)
Skills: .github/skills/*/SKILL.md — skill directories with frontmatter (name, description, license, compatibility, metadata). May contain extra supporting files alongside SKILL.md.
Agents: .github/agents/*.agent.md — agent files with frontmatter (name, description, tools, model, target, mcp-servers, handoffs)
Hooks: .github/hooks/hooks.json — JSON with version field and camelCase event names (sessionStart, sessionEnd, userPromptSubmitted, preToolUse, postToolUse, errorOccurred)
MCP: .vscode/mcp.json — JSON with servers wrapper (not mcpServers), may include inputs array for interactive secret prompts

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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.

12d ago First seen · 174 lines · 37 tokens per session scan B 601271dd9a48

Subscribe to this mod's changes

import-existing-ai-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabis94/universal-ai-config (11 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 4,242 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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