Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to acaprino/daodan. 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/acaprino/daodan/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acaprino/daodanWrote 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/acaprino/daodan/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/acaprino/daodan/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/acaprino/daodan/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/acaprino/daodan/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/acaprino/daodan/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 | $0.16913 | $0.16913 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.06765 | $0.06765 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.03383 | $0.03383 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01691 | $0.01691 |
Grade A, and why
daodan 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 4d 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:
- daodan CLAUDE.md — 94% identical, 10 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 691 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Daodan
The Daodan is the symbiote that augments its host. This repository is the Daodan of coding agents: a development harness, built on the static Meta-Code map of codebase-map, that coordinates project intent, code, meaningful tests, durable knowledge and experimental artifacts, alongside core language and stack specialists, Office methods, domain verticals and web research. The 24 domain, office, research and framework plugins extracted to acaprino/shinatama in marketplace 36.0.0 returned to this single marketplace, with text-humanizer back as a local dependency and /daodan:humanize-text restored to the daodan entry plugin while domain verticals keep their own workflow namespaces. skill-catalog discovers every plugin's knowledge sidecars and selects them per run. It ships to five hosts from one source. Remote: acaprino/daodan on GitHub.
Development harness
codebase-map is the core of the harness. Its static analysis records a project as Meta-Code: file and symbol inventory, body, interface and effects digests, interconnections and persistent semantic cards with surgical freshness. senior-review, abstraction-architect, project-knowledge, project-delivery and project-lifecycle require it and build their understanding on its evidence rather than rediscovering the project. The map supplies evidence and leads, never verdicts: correctness, documentation, tests and cleanup stay with their owners, who confirm a lead by reading source. Leaf and specialist plugins such as work-controller, skill-catalog, repo-hygiene, testing, clean-code and the language plugins do not depend on it.
Every core harness command lives in one entry plugin, daodan, since marketplace 38.0.0 (the command set design of
2026-10-19, a record retired with docs/superpowers/ on 2026-11-01): one command per
intention, no parameters, the only argument free text. Authorizations are asked
when a step needs them, once, and recorded in the run. Each command is a thin
entry into its owner's method; every core specialist plugin keeps skills, roles and
contracts and has no command. A specialist method a command used to carry lives
in its owner's skill, where the entry loads it by name. Independent domain verticals (research, digital-marketing, trading-broker-integration, pwa-expert, browser-extensions, grabber-development, libgdx-development, marketplace-ops, opentelemetry, rag-development, stripe, system-utils, xterm, ai-tooling, frontend-review, learning) keep their own workflow namespaces.
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.
- 4d ago Changed · -74 tokens per session b85eb1c10e5f
- 5d ago Changed · +6 lines · +226 tokens per session c50b7fea5a55
- 8d ago Changed · +8 lines · +122 tokens per session 97b97b2a2fc0
- 9d ago Changed · +37 lines · +630 tokens per session 722785873701
- 10d ago Changed · +20 lines · +611 tokens per session 1335c7440c4b
- 11d ago Changed · +42 lines · +682 tokens per session f5df4b48a359
- 12d ago Changed · +13 lines · +220 tokens per session d2f191a1f13c
- 13d ago Changed · +25 lines · +356 tokens per session 414b6c0f201d
- 14d ago Changed · +5 lines · +91 tokens per session 2be6fbcf4032
- 18d ago First seen · 535 lines · 14,049 tokens per session scan A 3db20c216da7
daodan AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository acaprino/daodan (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16,913 tokens to every session, about $0.0677 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 2026-08-31.
daodan AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| daodan AGENTS.mdacaprino/daodan | Instructions file | 9 | 4d ago | MIT | A | 16,913 | Claude Code, 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 | yesterday | 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 |