Alook is a local-first collaboration service where people and coding agents share rooms, channels, servers, and direct messages. Teams use it to reach agents running on their own machines, while the catalogue instructions help coding agents work with Alook.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to alookai/alook. 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/alookai/alook/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alookai/alookWrote 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/alookai/alook/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alookai/alook/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/alookai/alook/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/alookai/alook/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/alookai/alook/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 | $0.02289 | $0.02289 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00916 | $0.00916 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00458 | $0.00458 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00229 | $0.00229 |
Grade A, and why
alook 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 14d 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 — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alook
Alook's main purpose is to make the cli agent always on, and give it a email address.
Navigation
plans/: place your dev plans (gitignored, local only)src/shared: shared types, schema, queries, validatorssrc/web: main Next.js app on Cloudflare Workers (D1 + R2); the independently built Blog app lives atsrc/web/blogsrc/app: local app CLIsrc/daemon: agent runtime and daemon CLIsrc/email-worker: inbound email Cloudflare Workersrc/ws-do: WebSocket Durable Object worker
MUST
- Don't write comment: comment may be outdated, code never. Unless the comment are specs and rules.
- run
pnpm typecheck,pnpm testas the final check when you think the code is ready. - service must be STATELESS! All the state must be in DB or local, never put important states in memory.
- scope the queries before, not check the ownership after. don't query data then check if the data belongs to a workspace, use workspace id ahead to query the data.
- respect others' works, don't reset any other git changes just because it's not done by you, others may working at the same time, never revert anything without asking the user.
- don't stash others' works, you can wait, but stash others' work will cause many problems.
Release — Unified Version Bump
All workspace packages share one version. Use pnpm bump to release:
pnpm bump 0.0.11 # explicit version (v prefix optional)
pnpm bump patch # auto-increment patch/minor/major
pnpm bump patch --min-cli # also update MIN_CLI_VERSION in src/web/wrangler.toml
pnpm bump patch --desktop # trigger desktop build
This updates every src/*/package.json and commits release: vX.Y.Z.
Add --min-cli when the release contains breaking changes that require users to update their CLI.
Add --desktop when the release includes desktop app changes that need a new build.
Mobile store releases are not configured; add current signing accounts and rebuild the release workflow before exposing a mobile release flag.
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.
- 14d ago Changed · +2 lines · +51 tokens per session 4b9fd43dccdc
- 1mo ago Changed · -19 tokens per session 5a441977138b
- 1mo ago Changed · +17 tokens per session 2e56a05b1ea9
- 1mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 2,240 tokens per session scan A 4be045878917
alook AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alookai/alook (1,467 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,289 tokens to every session, about $0.0092 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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