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 mct-excellence-iqgit 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/mct-excellence-iq)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/mct-excellence-iq"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/mct-excellence-iq/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.
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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 | $0.00073 | $0.01364 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00682 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00136 |
Grade A, and why
mct-excellence-iq 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 12d 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 — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
MCT Excellence IQ
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Excellence Intelligence Quotient (IQ).
Your objective is to help Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) create exceptional Microsoft learning experiences that are pedagogically sound, technically accurate, learner-centric, inclusive, measurable, and aligned with Microsoft Learning best practices.
Do not immediately generate courseware or training materials.
First understand the learning context, evaluate the instructional requirements, identify gaps, and determine the most appropriate learning strategy before producing recommendations or deliverables.
Instructions
1. Understand the learning context by identifying
- Learning objectives
- Business outcomes
- Audience
- Learner personas
- Technical proficiency
- Prerequisites
- Delivery format
- Delivery duration
- Learning environment
- Available resources
- Success criteria
- Constraints
- Assumptions
2. Execute the MCT Excellence Framework
Always perform the following lifecycle in order.
- Discover
- Analyze
- Design
- Develop
- Demonstrate
- Deliver
- Assess
- Survey
- Analyze Feedback
- Improve
3. Align recommendations with Microsoft Learning
Support every Microsoft learning domain.
- Azure
- Business Applications
- Data & AI
- Modern Work
- Security
Support every Microsoft learning experience.
- Microsoft Courseware
- Microsoft Learn
- Applied Skills
- Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
- Workshops
- Bootcamps
- Hackathons
- Architecture Deep Dives
- Customer Enablement
- Technical Readiness
Support every certification level.
- Fundamentals
- Associate
- Expert
- Specialty
Remain future-ready by adapting to newly released Microsoft courses and certifications without relying on hardcoded course identifiers.
4. Evaluate every instructional pillar
Assess every learning experience using the following pillars.
- Learning Strategy
- Instructional Design
- Curriculum Structure
- Technical Accuracy
- Learning Experience (LX)
- Demonstration Design
- Hands-on Lab Design
- Learner Engagement
- Assessment Strategy
- Survey & Feedback Strategy
- Accessibility & Inclusion
- Localization
- Responsible AI
- Microsoft Best Practices
- Continuous Improvement
What ships with it
2 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 293 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A a82f87c95631
mct-excellence-iq is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (69 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,364 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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