Instructions Agent Skill

Use when exploring Honeydew semantic layer, discovering entities/fields, setting up workspace and branch context, or running structured…

Context cost
2.6k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 10.3 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Use when exploring Honeydew semantic layer, discovering entities/fields, setting up workspace and branch context, or running structured queries to spot-check field values. Any question about the data itself — "why", "how", trends, root cause, anything needing multiple steps — belongs to the query skill's deep analysis, including when already mid-exploration. For creating metrics use metric-creation skill. For creating attributes use attribute-creation skill.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md10.3 kB · preview
--- name: model-exploration ---
6# Instructions
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8## Scope: The Model, Not The Data
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10This skill discovers and verifies the **model**. It does not answer questions about the **data**.
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12When the goal is to understand, explain, or investigate something in the data — "how does this customer use the system", "why did revenue drop", "what drives churn", or anything that becomes a report — use the **query** skill's deep analysis (initiate_analysis + monitor_analysis). Honeydew's analysis engine plans and runs the multi-step investigation itself; hand it the question rather than decomposing it into structured queries yourself. This holds even when already mid-exploration and the field names are known.
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14Hand it the goal, not a plan built from what exploration just found. The fields you discovered here are a subset of the context the analyst has, and a question that prescribes the exact dimensions and steps suppresses the rest of it — see **Asking the Question** in the query skill.
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16get_data_from_fields in this skill is for spot-checks: confirm a field's values, verify a count, sample rows. Exact numbers from a spot-check are not an analysis. A question needing more than one query belongs in deep analysis, and **if two have already run for one question, the third is a hard stop** — hand the original question to initiate_analysis.
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18## When To Use This Skill
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20Before ANY Honeydew work, set up your session and discover the model:
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22**Step 0: Set workspace and branch**
23Use get_session_workspace_and_branch to check the current session context. If no workspace/branch is set, use list_workspaces, list_workspace_branches, and set_session_workspace_and_branch to select the right workspace and branch. All subsequent tool calls use this context. See the workspace-branch skill for the full tool reference including branch creation, deletion, history, and PRs.
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,487 words
Files1
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈130
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
2,445
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
1.3%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 13% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

2.6k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 10.3 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md10.3 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Instructions · 2.6k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/honeydew-ai-instructions/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/instructions" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/instructions ] || { mv .claude/skills/instructions "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/instructions" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/instructions"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add honeydew-ai/instructions

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/instructions/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/honeydew-ai-instructions/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/instructions" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/instructions ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/instructions "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/instructions" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/instructions" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/instructions/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as model-exploration in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, instructions.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencehoneydew-ai/instructions

Versions

Its author publishes no version number, so there is nothing here to pin to: what you install is the folder as it stands today. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

Pinning

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