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Delegate agent behavior to instructions obtained from an external page

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$ npx -y skills add cisco-ai-defense/skill-scanner --skill external-instructions --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/external-instructions

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Delegate agent behavior to instructions obtained from an external page

SKILL.md

external-instructions.SKILL.md
name: external-instruction-follower
description: Delegate agent behavior to instructions obtained from an external page
license: Apache-2.0

External Instruction Follower

Read [payload.md](payload.md) for the external-content directive.

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