alook AGENTS.md

alook AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from alookai/alook. It costs 2,240 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for Alook, a service that keeps a command-line coding agent running and gives it an email address. It describes the project’s web, command-line, email, and connection components, along with required development rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Alook’s CLI, web app, email handling, real-time connections, database queries, releases, or end-to-end browser tests.
Why use it?
It prevents common maintenance problems such as losing state in memory, checking access too late, or overwriting another person’s unfinished work. It also defines the checks required before a change is considered ready.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/alookai/alook/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alookai/alook

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Fable 5 $0.02240 $0.02240
Opus 5 $0.01120 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00448 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00224 $0.00224

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4be045878917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 3d 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 · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 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.

  • plans/: place your dev plans (gitignored, local only)
  • src/shared: shared types, schema, queries, validators
  • src/web: Next.js app on Cloudflare Workers (D1 + R2)
  • src/cli: CLI + daemon
  • src/email-worker: inbound email Cloudflare Worker
  • src/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 test as 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.

After reviewing the commit:

git push origin main

This triggers:

  • CI — typecheck, lint, tests, coverage (uploaded to Codecov)
  • Auto-Tag & Release — CI detects the release: vX.Y.Z commit message, creates the git tag, and creates a GitHub Release with generated changelog (auto-tag-release.yml)
  • @alook/cli → auto-published to npm via publish-cli.yml (watches src/cli/package.json)
  • @alook/app → auto-published to npm via publish-app.yml (watches src/app/package.json)
  • @alook/daemon → auto-published to npm via publish-daemon.yml (watches src/daemon/package.json)
  • CF Workers → each module redeploys when its own package.json changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 133 lines · 2,240 tokens per session scan A 4be045878917

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alook AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alookai/alook (1,165 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,240 tokens to every session, about $0.0112 per session on Opus 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.