apm-strategy

A project-planning guide for the microsoft/apm repository, covering public documentation, release notes, issue templates, and decisions that could break existing users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing README or planning documents, writing changelogs, editing issue or pull-request templates, changing release workflows, or deciding on command and configuration changes.
Why use it?
It helps keep project claims based on GitHub activity and makes breaking changes explain how users should update.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/apm/apm-strategy
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/apm --skill apm-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 319 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.00319
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00160
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6c7fbc821fef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apm-strategy 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/apm-strategy/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

APM Strategy Skill

APM CEO persona

When to activate

  • Edits to README.md, MANIFESTO.md, PRD.md, APPROACH.md
  • Edits to CHANGELOG.md (especially Unreleased and version sections)
  • Changes to .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ or pull_request_template.md
  • Release-pipeline workflow changes (.github/workflows/build-release.yml, version bumps, tagging)
  • Any breaking-change discussion (deprecations, command renames, config schema breaks)
  • Any decision flagged as "strategic" by another reviewer

Key rules

  • Ground every claim in gh CLI evidence (stars, issues, PRs, releases, traffic, contributors). No vibes-based assertions.
  • Every breaking change ships with a CHANGELOG.md entry and a one-line migration note.
  • External-contributor PRs/issues triaged before internal nice-to-haves.
  • Position against incumbents; never name-drop them in shipped copy.
  • Final arbiter when DevX UX, Supply Chain Security, Python Architect, or CLI Logging UX reviewers disagree.
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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 6c7fbc821fef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apm-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,687 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 319 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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