What is alice AGENTS.md?

Collaboration rules for contributors to the Alice project, including human and AI coding agents. They define how to choose repository skills, make decisions, and limit changes.

Updating Alice, promoting releases, merging branches, waiting for release artifacts, and running the project’s self-update process.

They give agents a consistent way to investigate problems and avoid bypassing the project’s established release and development procedures.

How Alice-space/alice configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Alice-space/alice. 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/Alice-space/alice/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alice-space/alice

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,481 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,481 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 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	$0.01481	$0.01481
Opus 5.5	$0.00592	$0.00592
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00296	$0.00296
Haiku 4.5	$0.00148	$0.00148

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4dad18ec370a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alice 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 · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS Collaboration Guide (Alice)

This file is the canonical collaboration and execution standard for contributors in this repository.

Scope

This standard applies to all human and AI contributors in this repository.

Repo-Local Skills First

When working inside the Alice repository, treat repo-local skills under .agents/skills/... as the default execution path for repository operations that already have a bundled workflow.
In particular, if the task is to update Alice itself, promote a release, merge dev -> main, wait for GitHub Release artifacts, or run the post-release self-update flow, use the repo-local GitHub skill first:
- read .agents/skills/github/SKILL.md
- run .agents/skills/github/scripts/github.sh
Do not bypass the repo-local skill with ad-hoc gh, installer, or release commands unless the skill is missing or clearly blocked.

1. Decision Discipline

Facts first, then inference, then conclusion.
Any diagnosis or proposal must explicitly separate:
- Facts: command outputs, logs, file references.
- Inference: interpretation based on facts.
- Decision: the action to take.
Do not make deployment/runtime claims without evidence.

2. Change Scope Rules

One commit, one primary goal.
Split refactor and behavior change:
- First commit: behavior-preserving refactor.
- Second commit: behavior change (if needed).
Do not mix unrelated files in one commit.

3. Pre-Change Checklist

Before coding, define:

Objective and non-objective.
Expected behavior invariants (what must not change).
Risks and rollback path.
Acceptance criteria (tests/build/runtime checks).

If task involves runtime/deploy troubleshooting, collect facts first:

# default installer unit; if installed with --service, replace alice.service accordingly
journalctl --user-unit alice.service -n 200 --no-pager
journalctl --user-unit alice.service --since "30 min ago" --no-pager

If task involves isolated debugging or temporary rerun runtimes:

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 1,481 tokens per session scan A 4dad18ec370a

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alice AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Alice-space/alice (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,481 tokens to every session, about $0.0059 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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