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 instructions/aboudjem/sniff/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aboudjem/sniffWhat 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 | $0.01901 | $0.01901 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00950 | $0.00950 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00380 | $0.00380 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00190 | $0.00190 |
Grade A, and why
sniff 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 2d 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 — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md: sniff
Instructions for AI agents and coding assistants working in, or invoking, this repository. Plain Markdown, no required fields (per the AGENTS.md convention: the agent simply parses the text below). Human-facing docs live in README.md; this file holds the extra context an agent needs.
What this repo is
sniff is an autonomous QA scanner: point it at a running web app and it walks the app's real user flows in a real (headless) browser and reports what's actually broken, with proof. It is not a static linter. npm package sniff-qa (binaries sniff and sniff-qa); ships as both a CLI and an MCP server (Claude Code plugin); Apache-2.0; Node >= 22; no API key required.
How an agent should USE sniff
Prefer the MCP sniff tool over the CLI when running inside an agent host (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code/Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Continue.dev). There is one unified sniff tool; pass { mode, rootDir, baseUrl? }.
mode: "walk"(RECOMMENDED, for a running app): drives a real browser, walks the app's user flows, and returns real bugs with reproduction proof. PassrootDir(absolute project path) and, optionally,baseUrl(the running app's URL). IfbaseUrlis omitted, sniff auto-detects the local dev server. If no app is running, it degrades to a source scan and tells you so via anotefield (start the dev server or passbaseUrlto get runtime bugs). Useful options:maxPages(default 25),mobile(default true, the 375px responsive pass),all(default false, includeuncertainfindings).mode: "scan"(source-only, no browser): passrootDironly. Finds placeholder/TODO/console.log/dead links/etc. by reading source. Works offline; no browser needed.mode: "report": load the last results forrootDir(format: "json" | "summary").mode: "run" / "discover"are legacy: preferwalk.rundoes a source+browser audit;discoverdoes scenario-based E2E.
Handling the Playwright setup gate
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 1,901 tokens per session scan A d98a150a5902
sniff AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Aboudjem/sniff (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,901 tokens to every session, about $0.0095 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
argus AGENTS.md
Instructions for chriswu727/argus, covering argus — agent guide, setup, web mode (works everywhere), wire it into the mcp host and using argus within the host task.
playwright-fieldkit CLAUDE.md
Instructions for jpbaking/playwright-fieldkit, a project described as: Playwright FieldKit: gives coding agents hands and eyes on the web — crawl, debug, record, and test live sites via deterministic scripts; portable Agent Skill for Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, and Cline.
playwright-mcp CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for microsoft/playwright-mcp, covering commit convention, ... make changes .., summary, rolling playwright and preparing a release.
cli AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for qawolf/cli, covering @qawolf/cli — agent instructions, commands, testing, project structure and code style.
playwright-movies-app AGENTS.md
Instructions for debs-obrien/playwright-movies-app, covering agent guide (humans and ai), preferred tool path, style contract, healing and review checklist.
webqa-agent CLAUDE.md
Instructions for MigoXLab/webqa-agent, covering claude.md, 模块化规则引用, 研究和规划 (critical), 1. 使用 context7 mcp 工具 and 2. 使用联网搜索.