What is verchestra AGENTS.md?

Repository-specific instructions for Verchestra, a tool for verified AI-assisted software delivery.

Use them when working on Verchestra’s code, documentation, qualification process, or release decisions.

They give agents the project’s current release status, required starting checks, repository map, and rules for describing its qualification state accurately.

How accd/verchestra configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to accd/verchestra. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/accd/verchestra/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/accd/verchestra

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,140 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,140 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.01140	$0.01140
Opus 5.5	$0.00456	$0.00456
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00228	$0.00228
Haiku 4.5	$0.00114	$0.00114

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8e2f89ef475e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verchestra 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.

AGENTS.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verchestra Repository Instructions

Mission and current status

Verchestra is a verified AI software-delivery harness. It is currently 0.0.0-qualification: T77 is complete and the declared qualification chain is fully verified. That is not a release. The signed promote-or-reject decision the contract (docs/qualification/RELEASE-DECISION-CONTRACT.md) requires has been made: it is a signed reject — a recorded hold — (docs/qualification/release-decision-1.0.0.md, #18). The candidate is fit to keep operating as 0.0.0-qualification and is not promoted to 1.0.0; a promote round would decide on a fresh candidate with its own decision file, after the tracked promote-readiness work lands. The verchestra npm package is published at 0.0.0-qualification, so a public installer exists and may be described truthfully; do not claim production readiness or a 1.0 release.

These instructions are provider-neutral and sufficient after a clean clone. Git and tracked repository artifacts are authoritative; chat history, provider memory, IDE integrations, MCP servers, and installed skills are optional.

Start every task

Run git status --short --branch and git rev-parse HEAD.
Read the issue or request, this file, and the closest scoped AGENTS.md.
Read docs/architecture.md, ROADMAP.md, and any active feature .specs/features/<slug>/handoff.md.
Use corepack pnpm agent:context when available to confirm status, required reads, active work, and repository gates.
Identify the canonical source before editing. Generated projections and build output are never canonical.

Closest scoped instructions refine these rules for their subtree. They must not contradict or relax this file.

Repository map

Read docs/repository-map.md before changing package boundaries. Inward dependency direction is contracts → domain → application; adapters may depend on those inward packages but not sibling adapters. apps/vestra-cli is the composition root. apps/site is a build-time documentation projection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Changes

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 · 114 lines · 1,140 tokens per session scan A 8e2f89ef475e

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verchestra AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository accd/verchestra (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,140 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 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.

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