Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aotter/mantle. 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/aotter/mantle/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aotter/mantleWrote 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/aotter/mantle/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aotter/mantle/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aotter/mantle/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/aotter/mantle/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aotter/mantle/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 | $0.00298 | $0.00298 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00119 | $0.00119 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00060 | $0.00060 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
mantle 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
Mantle contributor router
- To create or continue a Mantle application, use the version-matched consumer
skills under
skills/and materialize a project outside this SDK checkout. - To change or review this SDK, read
CONTRIBUTING.mdand the relevant accepted ADRs before editing. - To version, publish, or tag a release, additionally read the canonical release skill. Do not release unless the user explicitly asks.
Repository safety gates:
- Branch from and open PRs against
develop; preserve merge commits.mainis the default branch, so pass--base develop— an unspecified base targetsmain, which takes only promotion and hotfix PRs. - Keep Runtime adapter-neutral and the v2 manifest grammar closed.
- Use the narrowest relevant check while editing; run
pnpm checkfor broad changes.
CLAUDE.md is a compatibility pointer, not a second instruction authority.
Applications read version-matched instructions from their installed Core
package (node_modules/@aotter/mantle/docs/); see
agent setup.
Public/private boundary: follow CONTRIBUTING.md.
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.
- 10d ago Changed · +3 lines · +32 tokens per session 33eb1385670d
- 25d ago Changed · +2 lines · +37 tokens per session 3ef79e7872a8
- 26d ago Changed 80b58b07e01f
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 tokens per session 9b7f5492f394
- 1mo ago Changed · -7 tokens per session 5c899a6ac1a4
- 1mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 232 tokens per session scan A f51f63ac1ee7
mantle AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aotter/mantle (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 298 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.
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