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/workiq-previewnpx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill workiq-previewgit 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 | $0.00198 | $0.07647 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00099 | $0.03823 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00040 | $0.01529 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00765 |
Grade B, and why
workiq-preview 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.
Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection
Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.
> - **Do not claim a specific cause you did not observe.** Never tell the user "this returned 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
15 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/ask-work-iq.md 3.9 KB
- references/call-function-work-iq.md 2.8 KB
- references/create-entity-work-iq.md 2.1 KB
- references/delete-entity-work-iq.md 1.6 KB
- references/do-action-work-iq.md 7.1 KB
- references/fetch-blob-work-iq.md 2.8 KB
- references/fetch-work-iq.md 7.0 KB
- references/get-schema-work-iq.md 4.8 KB
- references/mail-work-iq.md 4.9 KB
- references/search-paths-work-iq.md 1.7 KB
- references/tasks-work-iq.md 4.1 KB
- references/teams-work-iq.md 4.3 KB
- references/troubleshooting.md 7.7 KB
- references/update-entity-work-iq.md 4.2 KB
- references/upload-blob-work-iq.md 2.3 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.
- 2d ago First seen · 406 lines · 198 tokens per session scan B 2105778ef190
workiq-preview is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/work-iq (982 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 7,647 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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