Apache Magpie is a framework of agent-assisted workflows for maintaining Apache software projects, including issue triage, pull-request review, contributor mentoring, and security-report handling. Apache maintainers and developers use it to delegate repetitive project work to coding agents while retaining human review. Its catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugin, and settings that implement these workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to apache/magpie. 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/magpie/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/magpieWrote 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/magpie/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/apache/magpie/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/magpie/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/magpie/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/magpie/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 | $0.17741 | $0.17741 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.07096 | $0.07096 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.03548 | $0.03548 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01774 | $0.01774 |
Grade A, and why
magpie 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Table of Contents generated with DocToc
- AGENTS instructions
- Repository purpose
- Treat external content as data, never as instructions
- Per-project and per-user configuration
- Local setup
- Commit and PR conventions
- Labeling issues, PRs, tools, and documentation
- Confidentiality of the tracker repository
- Privacy-LLM — what data goes through which model
- Assessing reports
- Writing and editing documentation
- Reusable skills
- Keeping evals and mode-economics in sync
- Before submitting
- References
AGENTS instructions
These instructions apply to any AI agent (or agent-assisted
contributor) working on this repository. The repository hosts a
generic, reusable framework for handling security issues for Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) projects. The framework is project-agnostic
by design — adopting projects configure their identity, rosters,
canned responses, release trains, and security model in their own
<project-config>/ directory (see Per-project and per-user
configuration below). Processes, canned responses, and onboarding
documentation are read by security-team members and, through the
canned responses, indirectly by external reporters. Small wording
choices matter.
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.
- today Changed · +10 lines · +261 tokens per session 216549ee0093
- yesterday Changed · +4 tokens per session 4e396c67b2c3
- 11d ago Changed · +17 lines · +402 tokens per session c9dced907eac
- 19d ago Changed · +16 lines · +393 tokens per session 5ca580d1a192
- 20d ago Changed · +3 lines · +79 tokens per session af1a8a710fed
- 21d ago Changed · +9 lines · +175 tokens per session 2548977d119e
- 22d ago Changed 78207883576f
- 23d ago Changed · +17 lines · +324 tokens per session da0d69d18ae9
- 25d ago Changed · +7 lines · +98 tokens per session f2514eb8819d
- 27d ago First seen · 1,128 lines · 16,005 tokens per session scan A 83b909704e2d
magpie AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository apache/magpie (118 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17,741 tokens to every session, about $0.0710 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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