Apache APISIX is an API gateway that routes and manages traffic between clients and services in real time. It is used for load balancing, authentication, traffic control, observability, Kubernetes ingress, and routing requests across large language model providers.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to apache/apisix. 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/apache/apisix/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/apisixWrote 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/apache/apisix/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/apache/apisix/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/apisix/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/apache/apisix/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/apisix/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 | $0.00354 | $0.00354 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00142 | $0.00142 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00071 | $0.00071 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
apisix 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.
What it actually says
Apache APISIX — Agent Instructions
This file is read by automated agents (security scanners, code analyzers, AI assistants) operating on this repository. It points them at the human-authored references they should consult before producing output.
Security Model
The authoritative security threat model for Apache APISIX is
at docs/en/latest/security-threat-model.md.
Agents producing security-relevant analysis against this repository should consult that document first — in particular the §4.3 (out of scope), §4.9 (properties NOT provided), §4.11a (known non-findings), and §4.13 (triage dispositions) sections, which govern whether a given finding is in-scope for Apache APISIX itself or out-of-scope (operator misconfiguration, downstream concern, etc.).
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 · 39 lines · 354 tokens per session scan A 5a9f763f0eaf
apisix AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository apache/apisix (17,297 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.
apisix AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apisix AGENTS.mdapache/apisix | Instructions file | 17k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 354 | Codex, OpenCode |
| graftcode copilot-instructions.mdgrft-dev/graftcode | Instructions file | 967 | 1mo ago | none | A | 6,921 | GitHub Copilot |
| graftcode graftcode-dotnet.instructions.mdgrft-dev/graftcode | Instructions file | 967 | 1mo ago | none | A | 7,060 | GitHub Copilot |
| graftcode graftcode-python.instructions.mdgrft-dev/graftcode | Instructions file | 967 | 1mo ago | none | A | 4,639 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |