Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to 8Dionysus/Agents-of-Abyss. 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/8Dionysus/Agents-of-Abyss/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/8Dionysus/Agents-of-AbyssWrote 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/instructions/8dionysus/agents-of-abyss/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/8dionysus/agents-of-abyss/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/8dionysus/agents-of-abyss/agents-md/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/instructions/8dionysus/agents-of-abyss/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/8dionysus/agents-of-abyss/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.01103 | $0.01103 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00551 | $0.00551 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00221 | $0.00221 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00110 | $0.00110 |
Grade A, and why
Agents-of-Abyss AGENTS.md 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Applies to
This root card applies repository-wide unless a nearer AGENTS.md supplies a
narrower local delta.
Role
Agents-of-Abyss is the constitutional and ecosystem center of AoA. It owns
ecosystem identity, charter, layer map, federation rules, program direction,
compact center registries, and center-local measurement over those surfaces.
It keeps the long arc legible without absorbing specialized implementation.
Skills, techniques, evals, memory, routing, KAG, playbooks, shared statistics, roles, runtime behavior, and ToS authored meaning remain with their owner repositories. Quest, checkpoint, progression, recurrence, or RPG language here must not imply live runtime state, ledger authority, or unreviewable autonomy.
Read before editing
Select only the route that can change the current task's interpretation. A
nearby README is a human surface: read it when its explanation, package map,
provenance, compatibility, or usage contract is material, not merely because
the file exists.
Use docs/START_HERE_ROUTE_CONTRACT.md only when the center entry-route
contract itself changes.
| Route mode | First owner surface |
|---|---|
first-reading |
README.md |
root-editing |
docs/ROOT_SURFACE_LAW.md |
direction-change |
ROADMAP.md |
ownership-routing |
docs/REPO_ROLES.md |
mechanic-change |
nearest mechanics/**/AGENTS.md; use the human atlas only when needed |
organ-alignment |
docs/organ-contract/AGENTS.md and the named source contract |
public-claim-validation |
mechanics/release-support/docs/PUBLIC_SUPPORT_POSTURE.md |
low-context-agent |
generated/center_entry_map.min.json, then its authored source |
local-memory-port |
memo/AGENTS.md |
district-work |
nearest local card and authored owner source |
Route source-linked knowledge to Tree-of-Sophia; roles and progression to
aoa-agents; scenarios and questlines to aoa-playbooks; typed helpers and
control-plane behavior to aoa-sdk; runtime and storage to abyss-stack; and
skill, technique, eval, memo, KAG, routing, or stats meaning to its named owner.
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.
- 7d ago Changed · -86 lines · -1,093 tokens per session ce2e4bdcd705
- 8d ago Changed · -60 lines · -458 tokens per session 662be4ecf05f
- 12d ago First seen · 247 lines · 2,654 tokens per session scan A 0d7e48d857d6
Agents-of-Abyss AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 8Dionysus/Agents-of-Abyss (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,103 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 per session on Opus 5. 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.
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