Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to adder-factory/cartograph. 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/adder-factory/cartograph/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adder-factory/cartographWrote 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/adder-factory/cartograph/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/adder-factory/cartograph/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/adder-factory/cartograph/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/adder-factory/cartograph/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/adder-factory/cartograph/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 | $0.01670 | $0.01670 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00668 | $0.00668 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00334 | $0.00334 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00167 | $0.00167 |
Grade A, and why
cartograph 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 6d 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 — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — install and use Cartograph v3 from an AI coding agent
Cartograph is this workspace's native code-intelligence MCP server. These instructions are deliberately mechanical: execute a step, verify its result, then continue.
Working on the Cartograph repository itself? Read
AGENTS.local.mdbefore changing code. It contains the private development conventions, architecture gates, Sonar workflow, reviewer step, and release procedure. A fresh public clone does not contain that git-ignored file.
Existing project rule
If .cartograph/ or a project-local Cartograph MCP registration exists, use
Cartograph for relationship-aware exploration:
cartograph contextfor broad coding-task evidence;cartograph findfor exact name/path/reference or BM25 lookup;cartograph graphfor callers, callees, and reverse impact;cartograph affectedfor test selection;cartograph reviewfor compare-to-ref and dirty-worktree evidence;cartograph statusbefore relying on the index.
If the index is stale, run cartograph index <project> or call the MCP
cartograph_admin index action. Do not present stale evidence as current.
If the project has no Cartograph setup, ask:
I notice this project does not have Cartograph initialized. Would you like me to run
cartograph admin init -ito build a code knowledge graph?
Architecture and hard requirements
This checkout replaces PostgreSQL completely with per-project RocksDB 11.8.1.
Version v3.0.0 ships this native backend. Existing v2 installations need
the v3 executable, a source rebuild, and host restart before using RocksDB.
Read AGENTS.local.md for development gates. Its historical PostgreSQL-specific
requirements are superseded by this authorized native migration.
Cartograph remains a native Rust executable with deterministic extraction, generation provenance, exact/code-aware BM25/graph retrieval, and optional model-scoped semantic evidence. No SQL runtime, PostgreSQL fallback, Docker bootstrap, SQLite path, or SQL query tool remains.
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.
- 6d ago Changed · -372 lines · -3,429 tokens per session scan C → A 35b15629fd03
- 11d ago Changed 1ef5b94efa13
- 19d ago Changed · +67 lines · +756 tokens per session 706830b7f559
- 20d ago Changed 48b3fb751823
- 23d ago Changed · +9 lines · +162 tokens per session c021aae816de
- 24d ago Changed 775c4ffed25a
- 29d ago Changed 82939248164d
- 1mo ago Changed 3922a56a29b8
- 1mo ago Changed 29749ae47899
- 1mo ago First seen · 444 lines · 4,181 tokens per session scan C d8b6521846e9
cartograph AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adder-factory/cartograph (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,670 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 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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