slate-draft

slate-draft is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/cat-agent-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (2,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A draft-writing step that turns an already checked staffing candidate list into a recommendation for partner approval. It does not assign people or approve the recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for producing a partner-ready staffing slate, including eligible candidates, refused matches, conflicts, utilisation context, and identified gaps.
Why use it?
It keeps recommendations based on the checked results and prevents drafting from bypassing eligibility, conflict, or constraint checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for producing a partner-ready staffing slate, including eligible candidates, refused matches, conflicts, utilisation context, and identified gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/slate-draft
About the project

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.

microsoft/cat-agent-skills · 101 stars · on GitHub

Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill slate-draft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,211 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00160 $0.02211
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00884
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00221

Measured yesterday against content hash bef536845159, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slate-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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/constraint_check.py, scripts/fit_score.py, scripts/input_guard.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

submissions/engagement-staffing-bench-match/skills/slate-draft/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slate Draft

Purpose

Create the terminal draft: a staffing recommendation record for partner approval, populated only from governed.json.

When to use

After constraint-check, when the user asks for a slate, recommendation, partner approval note or staffing summary.

When NOT to Use

  • Client-facing emails, kickoff thank-you notes or other correspondence.
  • Scoring or ranking candidates — use fit-score instead.
  • Deciding eligibility — use constraint-check instead.

Inputs

roles.json + bench.json + constraints.json + governed.json using contract ps.engagement-staffing-bench-match.v1. All four are required: the validator re-derives governed.json from the upstream inputs and refuses with no output if it differs (#9.8). It writes validated.json (--out) and the rendered draft slate-draft.md (--draft-out, required) together: both files or neither.

Steps

  1. Run the secondary validator. Draft only from validated.json. If the validator exits non-zero, prints error: or the input is malformed, stop and report the one-line error; never hand-build the slate. The draft is the engine-rendered slate-draft.md: present it verbatim. You may add prose only outside the tables, and never change a figure, verdict or ID; steps 2-6 describe what it already contains.
  2. Lead with any Govern refusals, especially if the top provisional candidate was disqualified.
  3. For each role, list final eligible candidates in engine order with fit score, component highlights, availability, utilisation after staffing, rate-band context and citations (record IDs and rule sections only). Check constraints_considered[] before placing anyone in the recommendation.
  4. Include ineligible and needs-review candidates in a separate "not recommended" section with conflict category, blocking rule and citation. Label eligible candidates below 70.0 as below_score_floor under fit-scoring-rubric.md #7.2. If any applicable conflict record is unexplained, unknown or not clearly resolved, move the candidate to Needs Review even if another upstream field says eligible.
  5. Write the gap statement verbatim for any role with no eligible candidate above the recommendable score floor.
  6. Start the output with the exact lines DRAFT - HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED and DRAFT - pending partner approval and independence/resource-management review, and present it to the user for review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 77 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A bef536845159

Subscribe to this mod's changes

slate-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (101 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,211 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-11-07.

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