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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 agentmods add skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/lab-column-mappernpx skills add microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill lab-column-mappergit 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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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 | $0.00133 | $0.01610 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00067 | $0.00805 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00322 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00161 |
Grade A, and why
lab-column-mapper 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 5d 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 — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Lab Column Mapper
What this skill does
Given an unknown column from an incoming lab results file, retrieve the most likely canonical destination column from a health system's clinical warehouse, explain why, and write the suggestion to the review queue.
Input payload
The skill is invoked with a JSON payload delivered by Power Automate. Every field is required unless marked optional.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
source_column_name |
string | The unrecognized column header from the incoming file (e.g., PT_MRN, spec_collected_dt). |
source_column_sample_values |
array of strings | Up to 5 sample values, de-identified. Never include raw PHI — the caller must hash or redact patient identifiers before invoking. |
source_lab_id |
string | Stable identifier for the sending lab (e.g., LAB-QUEST-001). |
source_lab_name |
string | Human-readable lab name (e.g., Quest Diagnostics). |
source_file_name |
string | Name of the file that failed ingestion. |
source_domain |
string | One of lab-observations, orders, specimens, results. Used to scope the search. |
pipeline_run_id |
string | ADF pipeline run ID for traceability. |
source_column_description |
string, optional | If the sending lab publishes a data dictionary, the human description of the column. Boosts match confidence significantly when present. |
Retrieval steps
Perform these steps in order. Do not skip to a broader search until the previous scope has been tried.
Step 1 — Same-lab scoped search
Query the Azure AI Search index lab-canonical-schema with:
- Search text:
source_column_name+source_column_description(if present) + a synthesized query from the sample values (e.g., if samples look like dates, add "date time timestamp"; if samples look like numeric with units, add "quantity measurement value"). - Filter:
source_lab_id eq '{source_lab_id}' or previously_mapped_from_labs/any(l: l eq '{source_lab_id}') - Top: 5
- Semantic ranking: on. Use the
column-descriptionssemantic configuration.
What ships with it
3 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.
- 5d ago First seen · 119 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 6335573951b9
lab-column-mapper is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (63 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,610 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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