What is dotbot AGENTS.md?

A project instruction guide for dotbot, a PowerShell 7 command-line framework for managed AI-assisted software development. It describes two-phase work, isolated Git workspaces, and a monitoring dashboard.

Use it to bootstrap and initialise projects, inspect workflow status, run layered tests, and work with isolated Git workspaces. A Git worktree is a separate working directory connected to the same repository.

It provides the required commands and project rules for setting up dotbot, checking its state, running tests, and choosing the correct PowerShell version.

How andresharpe/dotbot configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to andresharpe/dotbot. 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/andresharpe/dotbot/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andresharpe/dotbot

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md

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Per session 3,174 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,174 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	$0.03174	$0.03174
Opus 5.5	$0.01270	$0.01270
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00635	$0.00635
Haiku 4.5	$0.00317	$0.00317

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 71e6f6df1074, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotbot 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 · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) working in this repository. CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this file.

Project Overview

dotbot is a structured AI-assisted development framework built entirely in PowerShell 7+. It wraps AI coding workflows in managed, auditable processes with two-phase execution (analysis → implementation), per-task git worktree isolation, and a web dashboard for monitoring.

Commands

Always use pwsh (PowerShell 7), never powershell (5.1). PS 5.1 cannot handle UTF-8 files without BOM.

pwsh bootstrap.ps1                            # One-time: drop PATH shim into ~/.local/bin (Unix) or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps (Windows)
$env:DOTBOT_HOME = $PWD                       # Point at this checkout (persist via shell rc / setx)
pwsh tests/Run-Tests.ps1                      # Run layers 1-3
pwsh tests/Run-Tests.ps1 -Layer 4             # E2E (needs ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
dotbot status                                 # Confirm DOTBOT_HOME + framework git state + active project workflow/provider
dotbot init                                   # Initialise .bot/ in current project (workspace + .gitignore only)
dotbot init -Workflow start-from-jira -Stack dotnet,dotnet-ef
dotbot go                                     # Launch runtime + UI for the current initialized project
dotbot serve                                  # Launch only the low-level runtime

Architecture

bin/                       — CLI entry points: dotbot, dotbot.ps1, shim/ (DOTBOT_HOME-routing PATH shim)
src/                       — All source code
  ├── runtime/             — Process orchestration, worktrees, providers (Modules/, Scripts/, Plugins/)
  ├── mcp/                 — PowerShell MCP server, 28 auto-discovered tools
  ├── ui/                  — PowerShell HTTP server + vanilla JS dashboard
  ├── cli/                 — CLI entry points (init-project, doctor, registry-*, workflow-*, tasks-*)
  ├── hooks/               — verify/, dev/, scripts/
  ├── go.ps1, init.ps1     — Project-side launcher / IDE setup (copied to .bot/)
  ├── server-dotnet/       — ASP.NET Core question-delivery service (sibling product)
  ├── studio-ui/           — React + Vite visual workflow editor (sibling product)
  ├── shared/              — CSS design tokens
  └── packaging/           — Homebrew + Scoop recipes
content/                   — Framework content copied into target .bot/
  ├── agents/, skills/, prompts/, recipes/, settings/, workspace-template/
  ├── workflows/           — start-from-prompt, start-from-jira, start-from-pr, start-from-repo
  └── stacks/              — dotnet, dotnet-blazor, dotnet-ef (composable via `extends`)
tests/                     — Test pyramid (layers 1-4)
docs/                      — Roadmap, whitepapers, design notes, specs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 3,174 tokens per session scan A 71e6f6df1074

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dotbot AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository andresharpe/dotbot (55 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,174 tokens to every session, about $0.0127 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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