Getting it into your agent
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SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low
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 →
- low Privilege Escalation · line 328 Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
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 | $0.00078 | $0.04869 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.02434 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00974 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00487 |
Grade A, and why
agent 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Skill — Complete watsonx Orchestrate Agent Lifecycle
🛑 MANDATORY FIRST STEP (ALL DOMAINS)
Before ANY agent work — building, orchestrating, integrating, or adding voice — you MUST:
- Verify MCP ADK docs connection:
<use_mcp_tool>
<server_name>watsonx-orchestrate-adk-docs</server_name>
<tool_name>SearchIbmWatsonxOrchestrateAdk</tool_name>
<arguments>
{
"query": "agent development"
}
</arguments>
</use_mcp_tool>
-
If connection fails: Stop and fix MCP configuration in
.bob/mcp.jsonbefore proceeding. -
Search current specifications before implementing any component:
- Agents →
"agent YAML specification" - Tools →
"Python tool decorator" - Workflows →
"agentic workflow @flow decorator" - Integration →
"orchestrate runs endpoint" - Voice →
"voice configuration YAML specification"
- Agents →
This requirement is UNBYPASSABLE — even when user says "keep it simple", "don't use tools", or "just create the files".
Domain Router
Detect intent and navigate to the correct domain:
| User intent | Domain | Folder |
|---|---|---|
| "create agent", "build tool", "knowledge base", "deploy agent", "connections", "embedded chat" | Build | 1-build/ |
| "multi-agent", "A2A", "AI Gateway", "MCP server", "agent swarm", "agent collaboration" | Orchestrate | 2-orchestrate/ |
| "agentic workflow", "@flow", "flow decorator", "foreach", "parallel flow", "loop", "script node", "prompt node", "timer node", "decisions node", "docext", "docproc", "docclassifier", "userflow", "form", "callbacks", "masking", "multi-language flow" | Flows | 6-flows/ — start at getting-started.md |
| "integrate into app", "REST API", "Python client", "Node.js", "call agent from code" | Integrate | 3-integrate/ |
| "voice agent", "phone channel", "STT", "TTS", "WhatsApp", "SMS", "Slack channel" | Voice | 4-voice/ |
| "controls", "guardrails", "PII filter", "policy", "rate limit", "SQL sanitizer", "content safety", "secrets detector", "regex filter", "model fallback", "load balance" | Controls | 5-controls/ — start at getting-started.md |
| "evaluate", "agent evaluation", "benchmark agent", "test agent performance" | Evaluations | See orchestrate evaluations --help |
| "observability", "traces", "trace export", "monitoring" | Observability | See orchestrate observability --help |
What ships with it
60 files 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.
- 1-build/agents.md 17 KB
- 1-build/best-practices.md 9.3 KB
- 1-build/checklist.md 8.2 KB
- 1-build/connections.md 13 KB
- 1-build/deployment-safety.md 8.8 KB
- 1-build/embedded_chat.md 17 KB
- 1-build/getting-started.md 7.4 KB
- 1-build/knowledgebases.md 14 KB
- 1-build/mcp-documentation-guide.md 6.8 KB
- 1-build/run-adk.sh 1.3 KB runs code
- 1-build/tools_and_toolkits.md 13 KB
- 2-orchestrate/agent-communication.md 12 KB
- 2-orchestrate/ai-gateway-integration.md 8.6 KB
- 2-orchestrate/best-practices.md 14 KB
- 2-orchestrate/deployment.md 18 KB
- 2-orchestrate/discovery-workflow.md 6.0 KB
- 2-orchestrate/examples.md 17 KB
- 2-orchestrate/mcp-integration.md 12 KB
- 2-orchestrate/resources/approval_workflow.py 3.0 KB runs code
- 2-orchestrate/resources/customer_support_agents.py 3.8 KB runs code
- 2-orchestrate/resources/data_processing_workflow.py 2.2 KB runs code
- 2-orchestrate/resources/deploy_orchestration.sh 5.2 KB runs code
- 2-orchestrate/resources/README.md 2.3 KB
- 2-orchestrate/troubleshooting.md 16 KB
- 3-integrate/api-reference.md 7.2 KB
- 3-integrate/critical-patterns.md 9.0 KB
- 3-integrate/getting-started.md 2.9 KB
- 3-integrate/integration-workflows.md 8.7 KB
- 3-integrate/resources/chat_cli.py 0 B runs code
- 3-integrate/resources/package.json 506 B
- 3-integrate/resources/README.md 1.8 KB
- 3-integrate/resources/server.js 9.3 KB runs code
- 3-integrate/resources/test_connection.py 6.9 KB runs code
- 3-integrate/resources/watsonx_client.py 14 KB runs code
- 3-integrate/troubleshooting.md 11 KB
- 4-voice/channel-integration.md 11 KB
- 4-voice/deployment.md 13 KB
- 4-voice/resources/.env.sample 1.4 KB
- 4-voice/resources/credentials.sample.yaml 2.6 KB
- 4-voice/resources/deploy_voice_agent.sh 12 KB runs code
- 4-voice/resources/README.md 7.4 KB
- 4-voice/testing-troubleshooting.md 13 KB
- 4-voice/voice-configuration.md 10 KB
- 4-voice/voice-optimization.md 11 KB
- 4-voice/workflow-patterns.md 12 KB
- 5-controls/artifact-types.md 12 KB
- 5-controls/cli-reference.md 10 KB
- 5-controls/getting-started.md 10.0 KB
- 5-controls/hooks-and-priority.md 4.9 KB
- 5-controls/import-export.md 5.1 KB
- 5-controls/recipes.md 9.1 KB
- 5-controls/resources/apply-controls.sh 2.5 KB runs code
- 5-controls/resources/content-guardrails.yaml 1.2 KB
- 5-controls/resources/model-resilience.yaml 1.4 KB
- 5-controls/resources/pii-filter.yaml 1.2 KB
- 5-controls/resources/sql-sanitizer.yaml 998 B
- 5-controls/troubleshooting.md 6.7 KB
- 6-flows/assets/approval_flow.py 7.3 KB runs code
- 6-flows/assets/callback_flow.py 4.0 KB runs code
- 6-flows/assets/decisions_flow.py 4.8 KB runs code
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 330 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 50e48bec0a7e
agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 4,869 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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