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A starter package for APM, a system for defining reusable instructions, prompts, and specialized agents. It includes example workflows for saying hello and implementing a feature.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating and compiling an APM package with shared rules, executable workflows, and specialized agent roles.
Why use it?
It gives a project a ready-made structure for organizing agent behavior instead of starting with empty folders and files. The examples show how the pieces fit together.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 152 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 $0.00008 $0.00152
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00076
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00015

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac738aa9b40a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

[object Object] 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 2d 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.

templates/hello-world/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

{{project_name}}

{{description}}

What This Package Does

This is a starter APM package that demonstrates how to create reusable agent primitives.

Getting Started

apm install your-org/{{project_name}}
apm compile

Available Primitives

  • Instructions: Guardrails and standards in .apm/instructions/
  • Prompts: Executable workflows in .apm/prompts/
  • Agents: Specialized personas in .apm/agents/

Included Workflows

  • hello-world.prompt.md - A simple hello world workflow
  • feature-implementation.prompt.md - A feature implementation workflow
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. 2d ago First seen · 31 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A ac738aa9b40a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

[object Object] is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,687 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 152 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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