AGENTS

AGENTS is an agent for coding agents from 8Dionysus/aoa-agents. It costs 0 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An instruction file for the `agents/` directory and its nested folders, defining who owns the files there and how changes are validated and published.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the operating guide when editing agent roles, source manifests, generated registries, readers, or validation and projection scripts.
Why use it?
It prevents confusion between source-authored agent definitions and the separate installed or exported workspace files.

Agent

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/8dionysus/aoa-agents/agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/8Dionysus/aoa-agents

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for AGENTS

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/8dionysus/aoa-agents/agents.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/8dionysus/aoa-agents/agents)
Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 998 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash f5b972319382, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AGENTS 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 3d 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.

agents/AGENTS.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Applies To

This card applies to agents/ and every nested path until a nearer AGENTS.md narrows the lane.

Role

agents/ is the source-authored agent home for aoa-agents. It holds the repo-owned role objects and compact role-facing contract inputs that publish into generated registries and projection surfaces.

It is not the workspace .agents/ install/export lane. .agents/ carries operator-facing skill exports and agent-facing installs; agents/ carries agent-layer source meaning.

Operating Card

Field Route
role source-authored agent object home
input role, tier, class, cohort, adjunct, and runtime-seam source edits
output updated source object, source-home manifest route, regenerated reader, validation result, or stronger-owner handoff
owner agents/source_home.manifest.json, nearest branch AGENTS.md, and source JSON family
next route agents/README.md, agents/source_home.manifest.json, target branch AGENTS.md, owning docs, builder, validator
tools scripts/validate_agent_source_home.py, scripts/build_published_surfaces.py, formation builders, projection builders
validation this card's Validation section plus target family checks

Route Stack

  • Above: root AGENTS.md owns repo identity, boundaries, and verification.
  • Here: agents/README.md owns the source home map and agents/source_home.manifest.json owns the checked family topology.
  • Below: agents/roles/ owns role houses and their nested forms; agents/operating-model/ owns cross-role tiers, orchestrators, cohorts, and runtime-seam bindings.

Read Before Editing

Read:

  1. root AGENTS.md
  2. DESIGN.md
  3. DESIGN.AGENTS.md
  4. agents/README.md
  5. agents/source_home.manifest.json
  6. the nearest child AGENTS.md
  7. the docs named by the child route card

Owner Routes

Need Owner route
base role contracts agents/roles/*/profile.json
agonic and assistant adjuncts agents/roles/*/forms/
tier-shaped execution posture agents/operating-model/tiers/*.tier.json
orchestrator class identity agents/operating-model/orchestrators/*.class.json
bounded role cohort hints agents/operating-model/cohorts/*.pattern.json
role x tier runtime seam bindings agents/operating-model/runtime-seams/*.binding.json
checked source-home topology agents/source_home.manifest.json
generated readers generated/ and the owning builder
operation topology mechanics/
role doctrine and public explanation docs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 106 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f5b972319382

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AGENTS is an agent published in the GitHub repository 8Dionysus/aoa-agents (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 998 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 2026-08-31.