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 agentmods add skills/microsoft/hve-core/dt-curriculumnpx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill dt-curriculumgit 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/dt-curriculum)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/dt-curriculum"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/dt-curriculum.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00034 | $0.00665 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00332 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00133 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
dt-curriculum 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 6d 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 — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DT Curriculum — Skill Entry
This SKILL.md is the entrypoint for the Design Thinking learning curriculum.
The dt-learning-tutor agent loads this skill to teach Design Thinking concepts, run comprehension checks, and assign practice exercises. The curriculum spans nine progressive modules — one per Design Thinking method — and a shared manufacturing reference scenario that threads through every module so learners build on consistent context as they advance from the Problem Space to the Implementation Space.
Curriculum references
Load the module that matches the method the learner is studying. Load the manufacturing scenario alongside any module that uses scenario-based checks or exercises.
| Reference | When to load |
|---|---|
| curriculum-01-scoping.md | Teaching Method 1: Scope Conversations (Problem Space). |
| curriculum-02-research.md | Teaching Method 2: Design Research (Problem Space). |
| curriculum-03-synthesis.md | Teaching Method 3: Synthesis (Problem Space). |
| curriculum-04-brainstorming.md | Teaching Method 4: Brainstorming (Solution Space). |
| curriculum-05-concepts.md | Teaching Method 5: User Concepts (Solution Space). |
| curriculum-06-prototypes.md | Teaching Method 6: Low-Fidelity Prototypes (Solution Space). |
| curriculum-07-testing.md | Teaching Method 7: High-Fidelity Prototypes (Implementation Space). |
| curriculum-08-iteration.md | Teaching Method 8: User Testing (Implementation Space). |
| curriculum-09-handoff.md | Teaching Method 9: Iteration at Scale (Implementation Space). |
| curriculum-scenario-manufacturing.md | Alongside any module using scenario-based comprehension checks or practice exercises. |
What ships with it
10 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.
- references/curriculum-01-scoping.md 4.7 KB
- references/curriculum-02-research.md 5.0 KB
- references/curriculum-03-synthesis.md 5.6 KB
- references/curriculum-04-brainstorming.md 5.7 KB
- references/curriculum-05-concepts.md 5.8 KB
- references/curriculum-06-prototypes.md 5.9 KB
- references/curriculum-07-testing.md 6.1 KB
- references/curriculum-08-iteration.md 6.6 KB
- references/curriculum-09-handoff.md 6.4 KB
- references/curriculum-scenario-manufacturing.md 8.3 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.
- 6d ago First seen · 44 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0fb921dd4d28
dt-curriculum is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,436 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 665 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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