project-nighthawk: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/Nighthawk-ReportTemplates/SKILL.md

nighthawk-report-templates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Markdown templates for Nighthawk reports, covering architecture explanations, bug investigations, and guidance. The templates require a short answer first, code references, and a next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing a Nighthawk report about how a system works, why a bug occurs, or what someone should do.
Why use it?
It gives reports a consistent structure and helps readers get the conclusion and supporting code evidence quickly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

This is microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on project-nighthawk itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything project-nighthawk configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/main/.github/skills/Nighthawk-ReportTemplates/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00038 $0.01078
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00431
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00108

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9c1aab8cea52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nighthawk-report-templates 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 2mo 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.

.github/skills/Nighthawk-ReportTemplates/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nighthawk Report Templates

Three templates — one per question type. Pick the one matching the QUESTION_TYPE from the Classifier output.

Writing Principles (all templates)

  • Lead with the answer — TL;DR first, always. If you can't state the answer in 1-2 sentences, you don't understand it yet.
  • Cite code, not concepts — File paths with line numbers (e.g., ARO-RP/pkg/util/azurezones/azurezones.go#L85-L100) over hand-waving.
  • Be direct and assertive — State facts, not possibilities. "ARO enforces 3 AZs" not "ARO may require multiple AZs".
  • End with action — Every report must tell the reader what to do next.
  • No filler — Skip "In this document we will explore..." Just start.

Template: architecture

Use when the user wants to understand how something works.

# [Descriptive Title]

**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Service**: AKS | ARO
**Topic**: [Key technical area]

## TL;DR

[1-2 sentence direct answer. No hedging.]

## Technical Details

[Main content organized by concept. Use subheadings.]

**Architecture**: [How components relate]
**Implementation**: [What the code actually does, with file paths and line numbers]
**Configuration**: [Relevant settings, API versions, CLI flags]

[Mermaid diagram if it clarifies architecture or flow]

## Code References

- [`repo/path/file.go#L123-L145`](https://github.com/org/repo/blob/main/path/file.go#L123-L145) — [what this code does]
- ...

## Next Steps

- [Actionable items — what should the reader do with this information?]

## References

### GitHub Source Code
- [Repo/File](URL) — Description

### Microsoft Learn
- [Article](URL) — Description

Template: bug

Use when the user is reporting or investigating an issue.

# [Descriptive Title — include "Bug" or "Issue"]

**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Service**: AKS | ARO
**Topic**: [Key technical area]

## TL;DR

[1-2 sentence summary of the issue and its status/impact.]

## Summary

[What's happening, who reported it, what's affected.]

## Environment

- **Version**: [AKS/ARO version]
- **Configuration**: [Relevant cluster settings]

## Steps to Reproduce

1. [Step]
2. [Step]
3. ...

## Expected Behavior

[What should happen]

## Actual Behavior

[What actually happens. Include error messages verbatim.]

## Root Cause

[Technical explanation with code references. File paths and line numbers.]

## Workaround

[If any. Be specific about steps. State "None identified" if there isn't one.]

## Suggested Fix

[What should change in the code/service to resolve this.]

## Code References

- [`repo/path/file.go#L123-L145`](URL) — [what this code does]

## References

### GitHub Source Code
- [Repo/File](URL) — Description

### Microsoft Learn
- [Article](URL) — Description

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Changes

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 196 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 9c1aab8cea52

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nighthawk-report-templates is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,078 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.

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