microsoft/cat-agent-skills is a static website that catalogs reusable instruction sets and related packages for AI agents. People use it to search, filter, rate, and download skills for Cowork, Copilot Studio, and Scout, along with Copilot plugins and Scout automations. The catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugins, and settings displayed by the site.
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 microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill commenting-contentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skillsWrote 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/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/commenting-content)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/commenting-content"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/commenting-content/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/commenting-content"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/commenting-content.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00055 | $0.00472 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00189 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00094 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
commenting-content 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 1mo 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
Comment Content
When this skill is activated:
- Check the file extension of the attached document.
- If
.docx→ follow the instructions inREFERENCE-DOCX.md - If
.pptx→ follow the instructions inREFERENCE-PPTX.md - If any other format → ask the user to convert to
.docxor.pptxfirst.
- If
- Execute the full commenting workflow defined in the appropriate reference file.
- Return the updated file with native comments embedded and a short chat summary of findings.
Guidelines
- Never modify the original document content — add comments only.
- Set the comment author to
Copilot Studio AIon every comment added. - Research using any available sources: internal documents, emails, Microsoft Teams messages, approved knowledge sources, and web research tools.
- Only comment where it genuinely helps — do not comment on every sentence.
- The chat summary must include: comment count, main research findings, and top 1–3 priority issues for the author to review.
Reference Files
REFERENCE-DOCX.md— Word document commenting instructionsREFERENCE-PPTX.md— PowerPoint presentation commenting instructions
Examples
Example 1: Word document
- User request: "Add research comments to this report." (attaches report.docx)
- Expected behavior: Detect .docx, follow REFERENCE-DOCX.md, return commented .docx with summary.
Example 2: PowerPoint presentation
- User request: "Review this deck and add comments." (attaches deck.pptx)
- Expected behavior: Detect .pptx, follow REFERENCE-PPTX.md, return commented .pptx with summary.
Notes
- If multiple files are attached, process them one at a time and produce a separate summary for each.
- If the file type is ambiguous, ask the user to confirm before proceeding.
What ships with it
5 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 6d83629af754
commenting-content is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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