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 ncr-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.
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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 5.1 | $0.00066 | $0.00472 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00189 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00094 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
ncr-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
NCR Draft
Purpose
Produce the terminal artifact: NCR + inspection summary rendered from templates/ncr-template.md, populated only from the contract payload.
When to use
After defect-grade whenever graded_defects[] is non-empty; on request for an inspection summary even with zero defects (accept lot).
Inputs
graded.json (contract mfg.quality-inspection.v1, the {graded_defects} hop).
Steps
- Validate input against the contract; surface escalations[] - document conflicts (#4.3) and borderline calls (#4.2) go in a visible "Open escalations" block above the disposition.
- Fill templates/ncr-template.md: lot identification, nonconformance description with statistics, full characteristic table, grading with rule citations, watch list, draft-first containment actions, CAPA handoff note, contract payload as appendix.
- Render to the requested format (markdown by default; other formats via the template).
- Mark the document DRAFT - pending QE approval.
Output
NCR-.md - the terminal artifact of the contract flow.
Grounding requirements
Every numeric claim traces to engine:tolerance_check; every grade cites its rule section; certificate conflicts cite the CoC document ID and ISO 9001 8.4.3.
Constraints
- Draft-first: no containment is executed and nothing is filed or sent; the draft is a recommendation for the quality engineer.
- Nothing appears in the NCR that is not in the contract payload.
- Scope ends at the NCR; corrective/preventive action belongs to Quality Incident & CAPA (Wave 2).
Escalation / uncertainty
If escalations[] is non-empty the NCR must lead with them; an NCR with an unresolved #4.3 conflict is never presented as ready to close.
What ships with it
5 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 · 32 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ad3773d3deea
ncr-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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