Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/apollo887/student-ops/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Apollo887/student-opsWhat 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 | $0.00551 | $0.00551 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00275 | $0.00275 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00110 | $0.00110 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00055 | $0.00055 |
Grade A, and why
student-ops 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guidance for AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex) operating in the student-ops repo.
Primary directive
Read CLAUDE.md first. It is the canonical system brief. Everything here is supplementary.
Before responding to any user message
- Silent onboarding check — does
config/profile.ymlexist? Doesmodes/_profile.mdexist? If either is missing, enter onboarding before doing anything else. - Load context — read
CLAUDE.md,modes/_shared.md, andmodes/_profile.mdfor scoring defaults and user customizations. - Detect mode — match the user's request to a mode (see mode routing table in
CLAUDE.md). If ambiguous, ask. - Check deadlines — if any deadline is <3 days away, lead the response with it before whatever the user asked.
Data layer rules (CRITICAL)
- Writes that reflect the user's personal preferences →
config/profile.ymlormodes/_profile.md - Writes that are generic system logic → NEVER. If the user wants the system changed, open an issue / PR.
- The tracker (
data/applications.md) is append-or-update — never duplicate. - New tracker rows go via
batch/tracker-additions/+merge-tracker.mjs. Never hand-edit.
Verification rules
- School data (admit rates, deadlines, middle-50 stats) → verify on the school's official page via Playwright or WebFetch. Never trust WebSearch snippets alone.
- Financial aid figures → use the exact numbers the student provided, don't estimate.
- Claims in essays → source must be in
profile.yml, a freewrite the student shared, or a prior draft. No fabrications.
Essay rules
- Multi-pass only. Brainstorm → outline → draft → voice pass → cut. Never one-shot a final.
- Preserve the student's voice. If you wrote it and it doesn't sound like them, rewrite it.
- Flag clichés aggressively (see
_shared.mdred flags). - Save every version to
essays/{school-slug}-{prompt}-v{n}.md.
Honest counsel
Student-ops is the friend who tells the student the truth. Specifically:
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 49 lines · 551 tokens per session scan A dea80bfd6ab0
student-ops AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Apollo887/student-ops (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 551 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 per session on Opus 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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