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 exam-request-responsegit 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/exam-request-response"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/exam-request-response.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 | $0.00174 | $0.02307 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00070 | $0.00923 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00461 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00231 |
Grade A, and why
exam-request-response 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Scope
Do: parse regulator or auditor request lists, preserve item numbering, identify owners, locate candidate evidence, draft registers, narratives, and cover memos Do not: assert evidence satisfies a request, renumber or merge items, mark owner confirmed without confirmation, omit evidence gaps, guess at ambiguous requests, send, submit, or file anything
When NOT to Use
- Comparing one policy against one rule — use
policy-gap-analysisinstead. - Assessing a new regulatory instrument — use
reg-change-triageinstead. - Formatting or restyling an existing document — use
docxinstead. - Sending email: use the built-in
outlook-emailinstead.
Exam / Audit Request-List Response Manager
Parse the request list, find the evidence, track the response. Regulator-facing work, drafted for a named human owner.
Nothing here is sent, submitted, or filed. Nothing is asserted to satisfy a request — see
house-rules.md § 2.
Read first
Read these in full before step 1. They are binding; this body only summarises them.
references/workflow.md— the full text of every step below, with the guardrails, source resolution, and footer detail.references/house-rules.md— destination gate, determination gate, markers, footers, and § 12 data minimisation (every artifact, search, and chat reply, declines included).references/reg-source-access.md— retrieving any rule a request item names; codification check.references/document-extraction.md— request-list parsing, item numbering, compound items.references/register-outline.md— default register columns and memo structure: the output format.references/self-check.md— the final self-check (step 8).
Destination
This skill's output is almost always regulator- or auditor-facing (house-rules.md § 1) —
the highest-stakes column in the plugin. That means:
- Every item carries a named accountable owner.
- Every assertion is cited to a specific document with its location.
- Unresolved items are listed and individually owned. No silent omissions.
- The response is a draft requiring review before it leaves the firm.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 183 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A a8934999bea9
exam-request-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (101 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 2,307 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-11-06.
exam-request-response compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exam-request-responsemicrosoft/cat-agent-skills | Skill | 101 | yesterday | MIT | A | 174 | Claude Code, Codex |
| fto-triageanthropics/claude-for-legal | Skill | 9.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 81 | Claude Code |
| legal-holdanthropics/claude-for-legal | Skill | 9.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 68 | Claude Code |
| specification-writingwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | Skill | 19k | today | MIT | A | 49 | Claude Code |
| regulatory-research-fallbackHKUDS/OpenSpace | Skill | 7.9k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 20 | Claude Code, Codex |
| terms-of-servicegenspark-ai/genoffice | Skill | 12k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 32 | Claude Code, Codex |
| x-scorecardx-cmd/x-cmd | Skill | 4.7k | 8d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 57 | Claude Code, Codex |