QM is a shared work environment for coding agents that gives each employee and conversation an isolated workspace while allowing collaboration in Slack and on the web. Startups use it to run agents for individuals, teams, and company operations, with selectable harnesses and models. The catalogue entries extend QM with skills, instructions, and settings.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to yc-software/qm. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yc-software/qm/main/.claude/skills/dev-instance/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yc-software/qmWrote 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/yc-software/qm/dev-instance)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yc-software/qm/dev-instance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yc-software/qm/dev-instance/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/yc-software/qm/dev-instance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yc-software/qm/dev-instance.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 1 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00000 | $0.00012 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00005 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00002 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00001 |
Grade A, and why
dev-instance 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.
What it actually says
../../../.codex/skills/dev-instance/SKILL.md
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 38e704985111
dev-instance is a skill published in the GitHub repository yc-software/qm (15,646 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 12 tokens. 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.
dev-instance compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dev-instanceyc-software/qm | Skill | 16k | today | MIT | A | 0 | Claude Code |
| node-inspect-debuggeropenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 28 | Claude Code, Codex |
| lobsteropenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 0 | Claude Code, Codex |
| knowledge-ingestopenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 80 | Claude Code, Codex |
| knowledge-captureopenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 51 | Claude Code, Codex |
| knowledge-recallopenclaw/openclaw | Skill | 394k | today | MIT | A | 40 | Claude Code, Codex |
| migrating-openai-agents-sdk-to-pydantic-aipydantic/pydantic-ai | Skill | 21k | today | MIT | A | 87 | Codex |