What is collector AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for Collector, a Go project. They specify how to install the required Go version and require the full test suite to pass before work is considered complete.

Use them when setting up the project, checking the Go version in go.mod, installing Go, and running the repository’s complete test script.

They prevent development with the wrong Go version and set a clear check for whether changes are safe. They also tell agents not to claim completion when tests fail.

How accretional/collector configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to accretional/collector. 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/accretional/collector/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/accretional/collector

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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 1,840 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,840 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan D 3 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	$0.01840	$0.01840
Opus 5.5	$0.00736	$0.00736
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00368	$0.00368
Haiku 4.5	$0.00184	$0.00184

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b228bb36ec71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

collector AGENTS.md scanned grade D with 3 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.25.linux-amd64.tar.gz

AGENTS.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guidelines for AI Agents Working on Collector

This document provides critical guidelines for AI agents (like Claude, GPT, etc.) working on the Collector codebase.

Development Environment Setup

Go Installation

This project requires the Go version specified in go.mod (currently Go 1.25).

Installing/Upgrading Go:

# Check required version in go.mod
head -3 go.mod

# Download and install Go from official source (example for 1.25)
cd /tmp
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.25.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.25.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm go1.25.linux-amd64.tar.gz

# Verify installation
/usr/local/go/bin/go version

Note: Go versions are available at https://go.dev/dl/go{VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Replace {VERSION} with the version from go.mod (e.g., 1.25, 1.24.11, etc.)

Update PATH:

export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH

⚠️ CRITICAL: Test Requirements

You MUST Run All Tests Before Claiming Completion

./RUN_ALL_TESTS_BEFORE_SUBMIT.sh

Any test failure is YOUR responsibility to fix. NO EXCEPTIONS.

❌ NEVER claim a task is complete if tests are failing
❌ NEVER say "these failures are pre-existing" without verification
❌ NEVER run only a subset of tests and assume everything works
❌ NEVER skip integration tests or backup validation tests

Test Script Details

The RUN_ALL_TESTS_BEFORE_SUBMIT.sh script runs:

Build Verification - Ensures all packages build cleanly
Code Quality Checks - go vet and go fmt validation
Unit Tests - All package tests (pkg/collection, pkg/registry, pkg/dispatch, pkg/db/sqlite)
Integration Tests - End-to-end multi-collector scenarios
Backup System Validation - Backup functionality and near-zero downtime verification
Concurrency Tests - Race detection across all packages
Durability Tests - Database consistency and recovery
Benchmarks - Performance regression detection
Coverage Report - Test coverage metrics (should be >70%)

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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 · 260 lines · 1,840 tokens per session scan D b228bb36ec71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

collector AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository accretional/collector (41 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,840 tokens to every session, about $0.0074 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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