What is agentic-os AGENTS.md?

A set of instructions for developing the Agentic OS Console, a Next.js web application that connects to a locally running Hermes Agent. It explains the repository's source documents, technology, structure, and purpose.

Use it when working on the referenced Agentic OS Console repository, including its Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and local database code.

It tells coding agents which documents and project conventions to follow when changing the console codebase.

How aporb/agentic-os configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aporb/agentic-os. 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/aporb/agentic-os/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aporb/agentic-os

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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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.

README.md

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Per session 1,655 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,655 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.01655	$0.01655
Opus 5.5	$0.00662	$0.00662
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00331	$0.00331
Haiku 4.5	$0.00166	$0.00166

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f78c75a1263d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-os 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.

AGENTS.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Working on the Agentic OS Console codebase

Instructions for AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) helping develop this codebase. End users don't read this file — they install via Hermes per the README.

What this repo is

A Next.js 15 (App Router) web app that turns Hermes Agent into an AI-native operating system for solo founders. MIT-licensed lead-gen funnel for the paid Kodax appliance.

Not a SaaS. Not a chat app. Not a markdown-only template. The Console is a real Next.js application that talks to a locally-running Hermes via its api_server gateway platform.

Source-of-truth documents (read first)

wiki/draft-agentic-os-spec.md — full product spec. §10 has the positioning rules. §3 has the file tree. §6 has the bridge architecture.
wiki/draft-skill-pack-design.md — 73-skill C-suite catalog. Migration map at Appendix B.
wiki/draft-build-plan.md — execution plan for v1.
wiki/methodology.md — the philosophy essay (also linked from the user-facing README).

Tech stack

Next.js 15 App Router · TypeScript · Tailwind · shadcn-style local components (no CLI dep)
better-sqlite3 for vault.db reads
gray-matter + remark for markdown parsing
lucide-react for icons
No Radix beyond what shadcn primitives use; no heavy component libraries
Python 3.11+ for the indexer (scripts/index_vault.py) and vector search (scripts/search_vectors.py)

File layout (load-bearing parts)

app/                    Next.js routes (pages + API)
  api/                  REST endpoints; all require validateToken()
  page.tsx              Home dashboard
  skills/               Pack browser, runner
  wiki/                 Tree + page reader/editor
  sources/              Drag-drop ingest
components/
  ui/                   Local shadcn-style primitives (Button, Card, Input, …)
  home/, skills/, wiki/, sources/   Surface-specific components
lib/
  config.ts             Reads ~/.hermes/agentic-os/config.json
  auth.ts               Ephemeral token, localhost-bound
  vault.ts              Read/write markdown with frontmatter; zone access rules
  hermes.ts             Hermes API client (status, sessions, crons, runSkill stream)
  search.ts             Web search via ddgr → gogcli → browser fallback
  updater.ts            Semver check + applyUpdate
  packs.ts              Pack metadata + UI labels
  skills.ts             Server-side skill loader (shipped + vault overrides)
hermes/
  install.sh            Bootstrap script Hermes runs for the user
  start.sh, stop.sh, doctor.sh
  persona-template.md   Generic founder-friendly default
  bridge/               Hermes skill bundle (install/start/stop/update/doctor/vault-discover/cron-register/skill-register)
  skills/               Shipped skill packs (ceo/, cro/, cmo/)
scripts/
  index_vault.py        SQLite FTS5 + vector indexer
  search_vectors.py     Cosine similarity query helper

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Changes

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 · 144 lines · 1,655 tokens per session scan A f78c75a1263d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-os AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aporb/agentic-os (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,655 tokens to every session, about $0.0066 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.

Building agents

agentic-os AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
agentic-os AGENTS.mdaporb/agentic-os	Instructions file	17	2mo ago	MIT	A	1,655	Codex, OpenCode
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	today	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

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