Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet. 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/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/develop/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-petWrote 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/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/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/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet/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 | $0.02329 | $0.02329 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00932 | $0.00932 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00466 | $0.00466 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00233 | $0.00233 |
Grade A, and why
clippy-pet 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 21d 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 — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and others) working in this repository. Tool-specific files (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, .cursor/rules/) point back here — this is the canonical source. Human contributors should read CONTRIBUTING.md instead; the two documents describe the same rules but this one is written for an agent executing commands, not a person reading prose.
What this project is
Clippy Pet is an unofficial, animated paperclip "pet" for the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex CLI, implementing OpenAI's documented pet file format as a third party. The deliverable is small and exact: a JSON manifest (pet.json) plus a single sprite atlas (spritesheet.webp), distributed through a one-line installer, native OS packages, and a signed GitHub release. A v1 (nine-row, web-upload) spritesheet is built from the same source for ChatGPT on the web, which does not support look-direction tracking.
It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft or OpenAI — see NOTICE.md. Never write or generate copy that implies otherwise.
Repository map
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
pet.json, spritesheet.webp |
The actual product: manifest + v2 atlas. Treat as a strict contract (see below). |
source/frames/, source/row-strips/ |
Editable per-state source art the atlas is composed from. |
scripts/validate.py |
Validates manifest + atlas geometry/alpha/cell-occupancy. Run before every commit that touches the pet. |
scripts/build-v1-spritesheet.py |
Derives the legacy v1 (web-upload) sheet from v2 source. |
scripts/preview-at-size.py |
Renders cells at small on-screen sizes over light and dark backgrounds. Use it to judge any visual change at ~32-64 px. Pillow only. |
scripts/retouch-look-pupils.py, scripts/prototype-tiny-frame.py |
Art tools (need numpy/scipy). The retouch is SHA-256-guarded per cell and never changes alpha; the tiny-frame script is a design probe and must not write into spritesheet.webp. |
scripts/install.sh, packaging/bin/clippy-pet |
The one-line installer and the installed CLI (install/uninstall/status/sync/path/autostart). Shell, must pass shellcheck. |
flake.nix, flake.lock |
Nix package, nix run, and Home Manager module (programs.clippy-pet); CI runs nix flake check. |
packaging/linux/, packaging/appimage/, packaging/macos/, packaging/dist/ |
nfpm-based .deb/.rpm/.apk/Arch builds, macOS .app/.pkg/.dmg builds, reproducible tarballs. |
tests/ |
install-sh.sh (installer checksum and abuse cases; Linux, run in CI under dash/bash/sh) and home-manager-doc-example.sh (builds the Home Manager snippet straight out of docs/packages/linux.md). Run make test after touching scripts/install.sh. |
qa/ |
Validator output, blind direction QA, semantic review, continuity/chroma reports, preview GIFs — the evidence backing README claims. Don't hand-edit; regenerate via the relevant script. |
docs/, properdocs.yml, overrides/ |
ProperDocs (Material theme) documentation site, deployed to gh-pages by .github/workflows/docs.yml. |
.github/workflows/ |
validate.yml (PR checks), packaging-ci.yml (build smoke tests, AppImages, installer tests, Nix), provenance.yml (vibey commit-trailer and generated-file checks), release.yml (tag-triggered release), docs.yml. |
VERSION, CHANGELOG.md, CITATION.cff |
Must always agree on the current version string — see Release process. |
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.
- 21d ago Changed · +1 lines · +112 tokens per session 6439cf6ffc3e
- 28d ago Changed · +3 lines · +177 tokens per session 3bb6deacc746
- 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 2,040 tokens per session scan A 464080628b0b
clippy-pet AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,329 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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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