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/work-iq/declarative-agent-developernpx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill declarative-agent-developergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/work-iqWhat 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 | $0.00187 | $0.02978 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00093 | $0.01489 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00596 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00298 |
Grade B, and why
declarative-agent-developer scanned grade B 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 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.
Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency
A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.
2. **NEVER create files in a non-agent project.** If the workspace is an Express/React/Django/etc. app without `appPackage/`, your response must be text-only. Do NOT create any files, do NOT run any commands. The source is not reproduced here
No licence file
A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.
What ships with it
13 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/api-plugins.md 36 KB
- references/authentication.md 27 KB
- references/best-practices.md 3.5 KB
- references/conversation-design.md 16 KB
- references/deployment.md 13 KB
- references/editing-workflow.md 15 KB
- references/examples.md 11 KB
- references/instruction-review.md 45 KB
- references/localization.md 18 KB
- references/mcp-plugin.md 40 KB
- references/scaffolding-workflow.md 8.4 KB
- references/schema.md 3.5 KB
- references/workspace-gates.md 9.2 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 First seen · 194 lines · 187 tokens per session scan B 13d2af8dd44c
declarative-agent-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/work-iq (982 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 187 tokens to every session and 2,978 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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