fdb: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

fdb AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from andrzejchm/fdb. It costs 1,703 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for fdb, a Dart command-line tool that lets AI assistants interact with running Flutter apps on devices and simulators. It describes the project layout, commands, and how app sessions are managed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or debugging commands that launch Flutter apps, inspect them, or communicate with their running processes.
Why use it?
It helps an assistant understand how the tool launches apps, connects to them, and stores session information without rediscovering the design.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is andrzejchm/fdb's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on fdb itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything fdb configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to andrzejchm/fdb. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrzejchm/fdb

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fdb 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 15d ago.

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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 · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guide for AI coding agents working in this repository.

Project Overview

fdb (Flutter Debug Bridge) — a pure Dart CLI tool that lets AI agents interact with running Flutter apps on physical devices and simulators. It launches Flutter apps as detached processes, communicates via POSIX signals and the VM Service Protocol over WebSocket, and stores all session state under a per-project .fdb/ directory (PID file, VM service URI, logs, launcher script). The session directory defaults to <CWD>/.fdb/ and is overridden by --project <path> on fdb launch.

  • Language: Dart 3.x (SDK >=3.0.0 <4.0.0)
  • Runtime: Dart VM (standalone — not a Flutter app)
  • External dependencies: package:args (CLI argument parsing), package:vm_service (VM Service Protocol), package:image (image decoding/encoding), package:pubspec_manager (pubspec parsing), plus the Dart SDK (dart:io, dart:async, dart:convert).
  • Architecture: layered. lib/core/ is interface-agnostic business logic; lib/cli/ is the CLI adapter that wraps it. The split is enforced by directory convention so a future MCP server, REST API, or library consumer can call the same core functions without going through ArgParser or stdout tokens.
  • Entry point: bin/fdb.dart dispatches to CLI adapter functions (runXxxCli) via switch. Adapters call into lib/core/commands/.

Directory layout

bin/fdb.dart                              # CLI entry point — command dispatcher
lib/
  constants.dart                          # File paths + timeouts (used by both layers)
  core/                                   # Interface-agnostic business logic
    app_died_exception.dart               # Domain exception
    process_utils.dart                    # PID/process helpers
    launch_failure_analyzer.dart
    models/
      command_result.dart                 # Marker base for sealed result hierarchies
    commands/<name>/
      <name>.dart × 28                    # verb function + `export '<name>_models.dart';`
      <name>_models.dart × 28             # <Name>Input typedef + sealed <Name>Result
  src/controller/                         # Internal controller process implementation
    controller.dart                       # Controller entrypoint logic
    controller_client.dart                # CLI/core client for controller commands
    commands/<name>.dart                  # Request + response + runner per controller command
    vm_service/                           # VM Service Protocol wrappers
  cli/                                    # CLI adapter layer
    args_helpers.dart                     # runCliAdapter, runSimpleCliAdapter, parseXY
    adapters/
      <name>_cli.dart × 28                # runXxxCli(args) — ArgParser + token formatting
packages/
  fdb_helper/                             # Flutter package — registers VM service extensions

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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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  2. 18d ago Changed · +6 lines · +126 tokens per session cda1dd49ed80
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fdb AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository andrzejchm/fdb (46 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,703 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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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