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 eightd-draftgit 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/eightd-draft)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/eightd-draft"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/eightd-draft/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/eightd-draft"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/eightd-draft.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 | $0.00061 | $0.00367 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00147 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
eightd-draft 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 today.
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
8D Draft
Purpose
Terminal artifact: the 8D / CAPA report rendered from templates/eightd-template.md, populated only from the contract payload.
When to use
End of every CAPA run.
Inputs
capa.json (full contract payload).
Steps
- Validate against the contract; open escalations and closure blockers lead the document.
- Fill the template: D1-D8 mapped from the payload (D3=containment, D4=root cause chain, D5/D6=CA, D7=PA, D8=closure status with blockers).
- Mark DRAFT - pending quality-manager approval; nothing is filed or closed by this plugin.
Output
8D-<capa_id>.md - terminal artifact.
Grounding requirements
Root cause cites method + evidence; actions cite the library and rule sections; standard citations to ISO 9001 10.2 / IATF 16949 via references.
Constraints
- Nothing in the report that is not in the contract payload; draft-first, no QMS write-back.
- Scope: starts at NCR handoff, tracks to closure readiness - execution of actions is human work.
Escalation / uncertainty
Unresolved #3.4 rejection or closure blockers render as a leading "Open items" block.
What ships with it
7 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.
- today First seen · 27 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 3238b4a55d95
eightd-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 367 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 2026-10-28.
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