Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aaddrick/attention-control. 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/aaddrick/attention-control/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaddrick/attention-controlWrote 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/aaddrick/attention-control/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aaddrick/attention-control/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aaddrick/attention-control/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/aaddrick/attention-control/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aaddrick/attention-control/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 | $0.02287 | $0.02287 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00915 | $0.00915 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00457 | $0.00457 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00229 | $0.00229 |
Grade A, and why
attention-control 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 2mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- attention-control CLAUDE.md — 98% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Working in this repository
This repository ships one output style to seven coding agents. One file is canonical. Everything else is generated from it or checked against it.
Read this before you edit anything here.
The one rule that breaks the build
Edit output-styles/attention-control.md.
Never edit a generated file.
These files are generated. Each carries a "Do not edit this file" marker:
| Generated file | Built from |
|---|---|
skills/attention-control/SKILL.md |
the canonical style |
.cursor/skills/attention-control/SKILL.md |
the canonical style |
.cursor/rules/attention-control.mdc |
the canonical style |
the snippet section of INSTALL.md |
the canonical style |
AGENTS.md |
CLAUDE.md |
AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md say the same thing. Edit CLAUDE.md and run the
generator; the mirror follows.
Which file your tool reads
| Tool | Reads | For |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | CLAUDE.md |
these standards |
| Cursor | AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, both automatic |
these standards |
| Gemini CLI | AGENTS.md, then GEMINI.md |
these standards, then the style |
| Any other agent-instruction harness | AGENTS.md |
these standards |
GEMINI.md is not a repository guide. gemini-extension.json names it as the
extension's context file, so it is what a Gemini CLI user gets when they
install this style. Leave it as the style.
.gemini/settings.json adds AGENTS.md to the context list, so a Gemini agent
working here reads the standards and the style. It changes nothing for anyone
who installs the extension.
After any edit to a source file, run:
python3 scripts/sync_style.py
CI fails when a copy drifts. scripts/sync_style.py --check is the gate.
Write in the style you are editing
This repository uses its own output style. Apply it to your responses and to the prose you write into these files.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 233 lines · 2,287 tokens per session scan A 644f45800121
attention-control AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aaddrick/attention-control (143 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,287 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
attention-control AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| attention-control AGENTS.mdaaddrick/attention-control | Instructions file | 143 | 2mo ago | MIT | A | 2,287 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |