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 cowork-consumption-advisorgit 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/cowork-consumption-advisor)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/cowork-consumption-advisor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/cowork-consumption-advisor/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/cowork-consumption-advisor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/cowork-consumption-advisor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00193 | $0.03207 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00077 | $0.01283 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00039 | $0.00641 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00321 |
Grade A, and why
cowork-consumption-advisor 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 6d 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 — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cowork & Work IQ Consumption Advisor
Reporting skill. Inputs are Microsoft 365 admin center CSV exports (plus directory data from
Microsoft Graph); output is a self-contained HTML report, a Markdown summary and a JSON file
with every figure. All numbers are computed by scripts/analyze_consumption.py (standard
library only) - never estimate them in prose. The skill never changes policies, limits or
billing methods.
When to Use
/analyze-cowork-consumptionor "build a consumption report from these files"- "How much have we spent on Cowork / Work IQ this month?"
- "Which spending policies are close to their limit?" / "Who is over their credit limit?"
- "Prepaid vs pay-as-you-go split", "credits per task", "forecast Copilot Credit cost"
- "Cowork consumption by department", "which managers' teams spend the most credits"
- Any upload of Cost Management (Users, Groups, Policies, Agents & services) or Cowork usage CSVs
When NOT to Use
- Copilot licence adoption / active-user reporting from MAC usage reports - use the Copilot Adoption Dashboard skill
- Copilot Studio agent credits managed in Power Platform admin center - different export
- Changing a policy, limit, billing method or credit request - do it in the admin center; this skill only recommends
- Questions about pricing/licensing rules with no data attached - answer directly
Inputs
Exports from Microsoft 365 admin center > Copilot (all CSV). Files are recognised by their column headers, not by file name, so any name works.
| # | Export | Path in admin center | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Consumption - Users | Cost management > Consumption > Users > Export | Yes (or #5) |
| 2 | Consumption - Groups | Cost management > Consumption > Groups > Export | Recommended |
| 3 | Spending policies | Cost management > Configuration > Export | Recommended |
| 4 | Cowork usage details | Cowork > Usage > user details > Export | Recommended (enables credits per task) |
| 5 | Consumption - Agents and services | Cost management > Consumption > Agents and services > Export | Yes (or #1) |
What ships with it
10 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.
- assets/sample-exports/consumption-groups.csv 575 B
- assets/sample-exports/consumption-services.csv 230 B
- assets/sample-exports/consumption-users.csv 3.6 KB
- assets/sample-exports/cowork-usage-details.csv 2.2 KB
- assets/sample-exports/graph-users-with-manager.json 9.7 KB
- assets/sample-exports/spending-policies.csv 592 B
- metadata.json 574 B
- README.md 4.6 KB
- references/data-sources.md 6.9 KB
- scripts/analyze_consumption.py 81 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.
- 6d ago First seen · 202 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 90850f56a7ae
cowork-consumption-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (101 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 3,207 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-11-02.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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