What is minions AGENTS.md?

Project-specific instructions for Minions, a task-management application with a Kanban board. Users create tasks through chat, and agent sessions carry them out, sometimes scheduling recurring work.

Use them when working on task creation, agent execution, child sessions, scheduled tasks, review transitions, or the Node.js and Hermes setup.

They explain how tasks move through the system and list the software needed to run it. This gives a coding agent context before changing the task board, chat flow, or scheduled work.

How agent37-platform/minions configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to agent37-platform/minions. 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/agent37-platform/minions/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent37-platform/minions

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5.5	$0.01391	$0.01391
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00695	$0.00695
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Measured 2mo ago against content hash 338e845d2396, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minions 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 · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance to coding agents when working with code in this repository.

Engineering practices

We're a startup. You're probably used to writing enterprise code — code that tries to handle every possible edge case and has fallbacks for everything. That's not how we do things around here: our number one rule is to keep things simple. We handle ONLY the most important cases.

We try to only add new functionality that is small (that is, simple and few lines of code) or absolutely necessary. If a change is not small or absolutely necessary, don't make it.

What This Is

Minions is an autonomous task management system with a Kanban board UI. Users create tasks via a chat interface; each task is a Hermes agent session that autonomously decides how to execute — doing the work itself, spawning child sessions, or creating Hermes cron jobs shown in Minions as Scheduled Tasks. Successful agent runs move tasks to review automatically. The user never talks to child sessions directly; recurring work is managed from the Scheduled Tasks page.

Prerequisites

Node.js v18+
Hermes agent installed with its Python venv (default location: ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/)

The server spawns a Python worker subprocess that imports Hermes AIAgent directly — no hermes gateway process or HTTP API is involved. The Python executable is resolved in this order:

HERMES_PYTHON env var (explicit path)
HERMES_AGENT_DIR/venv/bin/python (if HERMES_AGENT_DIR is set)
~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python (default)
python3 (system fallback)

Commands

npm run dev          # dev mode: tsx watch + Vite dev server on :6969
npm run build        # production build: server (tsc) + client (vite) + copy .sql/.py assets
npm run start        # run compiled production build
npm run prod         # build + run production in one command
npm test             # Python worker checks + TypeScript component tests

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Architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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.

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minions AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository agent37-platform/minions (645 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,477 tokens to every session, about $0.0139 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.

Building agents Project management

minions AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
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minions AGENTS.mdagent37-platform/minions	Instructions file	645	2mo ago	MIT	A	3,477	Codex, OpenCode
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	today	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

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