Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to acryldev/acryl. 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/acryldev/acryl/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acryldev/acrylWrote 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/acryldev/acryl/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/acryldev/acryl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/acryldev/acryl/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/acryldev/acryl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/acryldev/acryl/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 | $0.04549 | $0.04549 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01820 | $0.01820 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00910 | $0.00910 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00455 | $0.00455 |
Grade A, and why
acryl 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 8d 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 — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DSH Desktop repository rules
This repository owns the desktop product around an unmodified DeepSeek Harness checkout.
The agent's system prompt (where it comes from, how to change it, and a generated current copy per surface): docs/system-prompt/README.md.
Building or changing an ACRYL plugin, tool, UI slot or skill: start at plugins/acryl-plugin-context/docs/README.md (routed docs) and plugins/acryl-plugin-context/example-plugins/README.md (verified examples for every plugin type).
Where an ACRYL app keeps anything (home, engine home, port, Electron user data, project folders): only through the AppInstance family in runtime/acryl-harness-runtime/src/instance/ (chosen once by select.ts, read by plugins from the appInstance service). Never call homedir() or read ACRYL_HOME/DSH_HOME/ACRYL_WEB_PORT anywhere else; tests/bulkhead.spec.ts enforces it. Design and rules: docs/acryl/APP-INSTANCES-AND-BULKHEADS.md.
Prerequisites and setup
- Use Node.js
^22.19.0or>=24.0.0and the root PNPM11.11.0release through Corepack. - Initialize the pinned upstream checkout with
corepack pnpm run upstream:sync. - Install root dependencies with
corepack pnpm install --frozen-lockfile.
Build, run, and verify
- Start the isolated local Desktop (own
~/.acryl-devhome, advanced mode, Development Canvas) withcorepack pnpm run dev(alias:corepack pnpm run desktop) orcorepack pnpm run local. - Use
corepack pnpm run dev:sharedonly when you intentionally want the installed app's~/.dshhome. - Fast headless loop:
corepack pnpm run typecheck,corepack pnpm run test, or both viacorepack pnpm run verify. - Typecheck, test, then isolated GUI:
corepack pnpm run lifecycle. - Build the desktop package with
corepack pnpm run build. - Build an installable Desktop for the host you are on:
corepack pnpm build:mac(unsigned DMG for this Mac's CPU only,apps/acryl-desktop/dist/mac-<arch>, about 0.7 GB installed;build:mac:universalbuilds both CPUs intodist/mac-smoke, about 1.2 GB installed),corepack pnpm build:windows(NSIS installer),corepack pnpm build:linux(Debian.deb,apps/acryl-desktop/dist/linux-<arch>). Each needs its native OS; the signed and notarized macOS release isdist:macand needs a Developer ID certificate in the Keychain. - Run the complete headless gate with
corepack pnpm run check. Every package's build wipes and rewrites itslib/in place, so two builds in one checkout collide (a package that depends on the one being rebuilt cannot find its output for a few seconds): run a gate or any long build asnode scripts/with-build-lock.mjs corepack pnpm run check; the launchers (pnpm web,pnpm acryl, Desktopdev) take the same lock around their build and wait for each other. - Run upstream operations through the root scripts, such as
corepack pnpm run upstream:build.
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.
- 8d ago Changed 1b940932e4be
- 16d ago Changed · +1 lines · +153 tokens per session a7949efb9994
- 19d ago Changed · +97 tokens per session dac9ad1aa627
- 27d ago Changed · +2 lines · +128 tokens per session 57eca501dbe9
- 1mo ago Changed 13bcefa9c5e4
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 4f025abdcf7c
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +87 tokens per session a8b1967d482d
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +81 tokens per session c2a0b75e78f5
- 1mo ago Changed · +12 tokens per session 5980f2c4c54d
- 1mo ago First seen · 270 lines · 3,989 tokens per session scan A 0d15545aa0bf
acryl AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository acryldev/acryl (298 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4,549 tokens to every session, about $0.0182 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.
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