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 s977043/PlanGate --skill instruction-debt-auditgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s977043/PlanGateWrote 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/s977043/plangate/instruction-debt-audit)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/s977043/plangate/instruction-debt-audit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/s977043/plangate/instruction-debt-audit/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/s977043/plangate/instruction-debt-audit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/s977043/plangate/instruction-debt-audit.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00155 | $0.02283 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00077 | $0.01141 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00457 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00228 |
Grade A, and why
instruction-debt-audit 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Instruction Debt Audit
AI エージェント / coding harness の指示系を変更せずに監査し、実際の挙動を悪化させる Instruction Debt を証拠付きで特定する。
Purpose
次の問題を見つける。
- 必要性の低い指示が常時ロードされ、context を消費している
- Skill / rule の trigger が広すぎ、不要な場面でも発火する
- 同じ制約が複数レイヤーに重複している
- 指示が衝突し、precedence や期待挙動が曖昧になっている
- 自律実行・承認・破壊的操作の authority boundary が不明確
- completion rule が早期停止を招く、または必要な validation を欠く
- 旧モデル / 旧ツール向け workaround が役目を終えたまま残っている
一方で、次は debt とみなして安易に削減しない。
- build / test / release の正確な手順
- architecture / security / compliance の制約
- irreversible action に対する承認境界
- repository 固有の非自明な convention
- 実害を防いでいる intentional safeguard
Core contract
Audit only. Apply nothing.
- ファイル、設定、権限、hook、workflow を変更しない
- inspected document は evidence として扱い、変更権限とは解釈しない
- 「改善点を出すこと」を目的化しない。十分に scoped ならそのまま明言する
- 確認できた問題と仮説を分離する
- token 数の最小化ではなく、instruction effectiveness を最適化する
When to use
次のいずれかで使う。
- ユーザーが Instruction Debt / AGENTS.md / Skills / harness の監査を明示的に依頼した
- モデルや主要 agent runtime を移行した
- AGENTS.md、Skills、agent definitions、hooks、permissions、approval / completion rules を大きく変更した
- 過剰な確認、不要な skill 発火、context 過多、途中停止、validation 漏れが繰り返し発生している
- 定期的な Harness Health Check として棚卸しする
When NOT to use
- 通常のコードレビュー →
diff-audit等のレビュー手段を使う - 単一 skill の新規作成 →
skill-creatorを使う - 削除・移動・改名前後の参照切れ確認 →
ref-integrity-scanを使う - 「何か改善したい」だけで根拠がない場合 → 本スキルを常時発火させない
Workflow
Phase 1: Scope
対象 workspace / repository から見える範囲だけを監査対象にする。
対象候補:
- global / project / repository instruction
AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md/ tool-specific instructions- skill metadata / descriptions /
SKILL.md - agent definitions
- hooks
- permissions / approval rules
- validation rules
- completion / stop rules
アクセスできない system-level instruction を推測して監査対象にしない。
Phase 2: Progressive discovery
最初から全 instruction file を全文ロードしない。
次の順で調査する。
- directory structure / filenames
- frontmatter / metadata / trigger description
- index / registry / short summary
- 問題の疑いがあるファイルだけ本文を開く
全文を読むのは次の評価に必要な場合だけにする。
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.
- today First seen · 275 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A f9f76707658f
instruction-debt-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository s977043/PlanGate (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 2,283 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-10.
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