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 skills add ivegamsft/basecoat --skill create-instructiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoatWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/create-instruction)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/create-instruction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/create-instruction.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00084 | $0.00304 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00042 | $0.00152 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00061 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
create-instruction 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 4d 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.
What it actually says
Create An Instruction
Use this skill when adding a new *.instructions.md file to the shared standards set.
Workflow
- Identify the domain and whether it should always apply or target specific file patterns.
- Write frontmatter with a strong description and a deliberate
applyToglob. - Add practical expectations, not generic prose.
- Include a short review lens to guide quality checks.
- Validate that the instruction does not overlap confusingly with an existing one.
- Update inventory or docs so the instruction can be found.
Guardrails
- Avoid
applyTo: "**"unless the instruction truly applies to nearly all work. - Prefer concrete verbs such as validate, document, retry, pin, or secure.
- Keep the instruction focused on one problem space.
Starter Assets
- Template:
templates/instruction.template.md
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 096b6ed73dc2
create-instruction is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 304 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 2026-09-03.
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