HVE Core is a collection of agents, prompts, coding instructions, and skills for building repeatable software-development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It is intended for individuals and teams that want structured AI-assisted research, planning, implementation, and review, while the catalogue entries provide many of its reusable workflow components.
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/hve-core --skill data-cataloggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-coreWrote 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/hve-core/data-catalog)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/data-catalog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/data-catalog/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/data-catalog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/data-catalog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Prompt Injection · line 65 Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 | $0.00054 | $0.01218 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00487 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00244 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00122 |
Grade A, and why
data-catalog 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 — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Data Catalog Workflow
Goal
Produce a customer-readable Markdown catalog whose YAML frontmatter is a valid DS_CATALOG_V1 machine contract. Preserve uncertainty explicitly so inferred or assumed relationships never appear confirmed.
Flow
- Confirm the engagement name and the caller-approved durable output path.
- Inventory entities at business grain. Record source access, tier, volume, profile pointer, classification, lineage, and open questions without copying column-level profile data.
- Assign every relationship a stable
rel-*identifier. Record endpoints, maximum cardinality, both endpoint minimums, one or more paired join-key fields, confidence, and evidence basis. - Reconcile coverage counts with the entity and relationship records.
- Render the human-readable sections from the YAML facts, ending with the canonical Data Science and Engineering Coaching disclaimer footer. Narrative can explain facts but cannot redefine them.
- Validate the artifact with
scripts/validate_catalog.pybefore treating it as ready for review.
Inputs
- Engagement context and a caller-approved output path
- Data source inventory and access status
- Business entity names, grain, and declared relationships
- Existing per-dataset profile paths, when available
- Privacy classifications or standards citations produced by the owning privacy workflow
Success criteria
- The frontmatter declares exactly
catalog_version: DS_CATALOG_V1and validates againstassets/ds-catalog-v1.schema.json. - Entity IDs and relationship IDs are unique and stable. Every endpoint and lineage reference resolves.
- Every relationship declares
cardinalityas its maximum multiplicity plusfrom_minimumandto_minimumaszeroorone. - Join keys use one string on both sides or paired arrays of equal length, and record field names only without primary-key, foreign-key, or uniqueness roles.
- Relationship confidence is one of
confirmed,inferred, orassumed, and every relationship records its basis. - Classification uses the
privacy-standardscitation-field names. The catalog does not invent standards identifiers. - Column statistics and feature metadata remain behind
profile_refrather than being copied into the catalog. - Every customer-facing catalog ends with the canonical Data Science and Engineering Coaching disclaimer footer.
What ships with it
17 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.
- assets/ds-catalog-v1.schema.json 5.9 KB
- examples/northwind-catalog.md 8.4 KB
- pyproject.toml 698 B
- references/catalog-contract.md 11 KB
- references/dcat-crosswalk.md 5.4 KB
- references/provenance.md 3.1 KB
- scripts/validate_catalog.py 15 KB runs code
- templates/ds-catalog-v1.md 5.3 KB
- tests/corpus/0_valid_frontmatter 90 B
- tests/corpus/1_empty_frontmatter 8 B
- tests/corpus/2_unclosed_sequence 20 B
- tests/corpus/3_duplicate_key 24 B
- tests/corpus/4_no_frontmatter 15 B
- tests/corpus/README.md 1.2 KB
- tests/fuzz_harness.py 1.2 KB runs code
- tests/test_validate_catalog.py 24 KB runs code
- uv.lock 108 KB
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 Changed e61c3c0f4fcf
- 2mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6089072adc31
data-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,606 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,218 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
data-catalog compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-catalogmicrosoft/hve-core | Skill | 1.6k | yesterday | MIT | A | 54 | Claude Code |
| agent-platform-model-registrygoogle/skills | Skill | 24k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 60 | Claude Code, Codex |
| foundry-config-setupmicrosoft/agent-framework | Skill | 15k | yesterday | MIT | A | 65 | Claude Code, Codex |
| google-cloud-solution-agentic-analytics-spark-knowledge-cataloggoogle/skills | Skill | 24k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 132 | Claude Code, Codex |
| training-checkwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | Skill | 19k | yesterday | MIT | A | 35 | Claude Code |
| nemo-automodel-launcher-configNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 30 | Claude Code |
| finetuningmicrosoft/skills | Skill | 3.2k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 132 | Claude Code |