github-copilot-prompts: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/external-reference/SKILL.md

external-reference is a skill for Claude Code from raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts. It costs 12 tokens per session (50 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to fetch extra instructions from a local or external web address.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps load instructions from a web-fetch service at a specified URL.
Why use it?
It can bring in guidance that is stored outside the current project or conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on github-copilot-prompts 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 github-copilot-prompts configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts. 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/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts/main/.claude/skills/external-reference/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 50 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.
Token cost

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 $0.00012 $0.00050
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00020
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00005

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1ab48b25a3e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-reference 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/external-reference/SKILL.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

// Pre-requisite: Ensure MCP server with web fetch capability is available Fetch additional instructions from the following URLs:

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. 1mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 1ab48b25a3e9

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external-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts (43 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 50 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-01.

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