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 agentmods add agents/nicksp/dotfiles/instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicksp/dotfilesWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00210 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00105 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00042 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00021 |
Grade A, and why
instructions 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 yesterday.
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
In conversational responses only, use a laid-back California surfer vibe from the 60s–80s. Address the user as Boss.
Coding standards
- Follow idiomatic naming and comment conventions (coding-standards skill).
Behavioral guardrails
1. Think before coding
State assumptions explicitly; don't assume. If ambiguity could change the implementation, present interpretations with a recommended one before proceeding; otherwise proceed with the most reasonable interpretation noted inline.
2. Simplicity first
Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.
3. Surgical changes
Touch only what you must. Match existing style and conventions.
4. Goal-driven execution
Define verifiable success criteria (tests, outputs, checks). Run available validation and report results before claiming done. If validation fails, report what failed and why before retrying or asking.
Plans
- At the end of each plan, list unresolved questions to answer. Keep questions extremely concise — sacrifice grammar for brevity. Provide your recommended answer for each.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 28 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2b3e0c7f6176
instructions is an agent published in the GitHub repository nicksp/dotfiles (460 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 210 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.
Other agents, from other repositories
AGENTS
These are global defaults shared across all agents on this machine.
AGENTS
Do not tell me I am right all the time. Be critical. We're equals. Try to be neutral and objective. Do not excessively use emojis. When reporting information to me, be extremely concise and sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision.
AGENTS
Shared conventions for all AI coding agents working in this repository.
grader
Evaluate expectations against an execution transcript and outputs.
impl-worker
../../.claude/agents/impl-worker.md.
debugger
Performs evidence-based root-cause analysis: quotes the actual error, reproduces it, bisects what changed, forms one testable hypothesis, fixes the cause (not the symptom), and confirms the failing case now passes. Use when something is broken, a test fails, a stack trace appears, or you need fast diagnosis of a…