mnemos: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

mnemos AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from anthony-maio/mnemos. It costs 214 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Agent instructions for Mnemos, a memory system for language-model projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them at the start and end of substantial coding tasks, when Mnemos MCP tools are available, to manage project-scoped memories safely.
Why use it?
They tell coding agents when to retrieve, save, inspect, and consolidate project memories, reducing repeated work and preserving durable decisions.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is anthony-maio/mnemos's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on mnemos 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 mnemos configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to anthony-maio/mnemos. 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/anthony-maio/mnemos/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthony-maio/mnemos

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Sonnet 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00043
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Measured 1mo ago against content hash 97ae113c3d29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mnemos 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 1mo 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 · 18 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS.md

Mnemos Memory

Use Mnemos through MCP automatically on every substantial coding task in this repository.

  1. At the start of every substantial user task, call mnemos_retrieve with a focused query tied to the task.
  2. Use current_scope=project, set scope_id to the current repository/workspace name, and include allowed_scopes=project,global unless the user asks for broader scope.
  3. During execution, call mnemos_store only for durable facts:
    • stable user or maintainer preferences
    • project architecture decisions and rationale
    • environment and tooling facts that will matter again
    • recurring bug patterns and their fixes
  4. Before finishing substantial work, call mnemos_consolidate.
  5. If a retrieved memory looks suspicious, call mnemos_inspect before storing a correction.
  6. Never store secrets, credentials, tokens, or one-off transient chatter.
  7. If Mnemos MCP tools are unavailable, continue normally without blocking work.
Changes

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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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 97ae113c3d29

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mnemos AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository anthony-maio/mnemos (28 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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