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 synth-data-generategit 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/synth-data-generate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/synth-data-generate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/synth-data-generate/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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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 | $0.00042 | $0.03534 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.01414 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00707 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00353 |
Grade C, and why
synth-data-generate scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- cspell:ignore distinguishability tesseract pydatetime savefig scipy timedelta --> How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Synthetic Data Generator
Goal
Generate realistic, comprehensive synthetic data for subject in a Jupyter notebook only after the applicable dataops synthetic-data operation preflight passes. Use example_data when the user supplies an existing data source, schema, or file to use as a strict reference for structure and patterns.
Inputs
subject: Required. User query describing the subject for synthetic data generation.example_data: Optional. Free-form input describing an existing data source, schema, or file to use as a reference for structure and patterns.
Required steps
Step 0: Validate synthetic-data operation preflight
- Activate the
dataopsskill by stable name and read its synthetic-data operation contract. - Require a
SYNTHETIC_DATA_OPERATION_V1preflight record before creating a project, installing packages, creating a notebook, accessing a source, or generating data. - Run the
dataopsvalidatecommand. Continue only when the gate passes with a current approved applicable classification decision carrying data-owner authority. - Treat protected-attribute generation and subgroup evaluation as inactive unless current qualified decision references explicitly mark them applicable. Protected-attribute generation requires privacy, Responsible AI or fairness, and domain-owner roles. Subgroup evaluation requires Responsible AI or fairness and domain-owner roles plus every activated subgroup reference.
- For
replace-local, require one existing regular local file under a caller-approved root, a matching expected SHA-256 source digest, and current approved applicable data-owner replacement authority. Reject directories, links, remote stores, network shares, databases, APIs, and multi-target operations. - If validation fails, stop before any write or source access. Report only stable categories, record identifiers, counts, and digests, plus the smallest qualified-owner action needed to resume. Do not reproduce source values in chat or records.
What ships with it
3 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.
- yesterday Changed · -1 lines 097a2fcf1a9c
- 1mo ago First seen · 270 lines · 42 tokens per session scan C 19d2362b8839
synth-data-generate is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,606 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,534 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-08.
synth-data-generate compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| synth-data-generatemicrosoft/hve-core | Skill | 1.6k | today | MIT | C | 42 | Claude Code |
| arboretoK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | Skill | 56k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 55 | Claude Code, Codex |
| deepspot-mK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | Skill | 56k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 70 | Claude Code |
| torchdrugK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | Skill | 56k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 64 | Claude Code |
| pyhealthK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | Skill | 56k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 84 | Claude Code, Codex |
| nemo-mbridge-perf-expert-parallel-overlapNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 56 | Claude Code |
| ml-training-recipesOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Skill | 14k | 28d ago | MIT | A | 88 | Claude Code |