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/aradotso/openara/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aradotso/OpenAraWhat 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 | $0.00319 | $0.00319 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00160 | $0.00160 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00064 | $0.00064 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00032 |
Grade A, and why
OpenAra 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.
What it actually says
OpenAra agent guide
OpenAra is Ara's open-source Computer Use server for macOS — a local MCP server exposing nine desktop-control tools to any AI agent.
Read first
- README.md — what OpenAra is and how to run it.
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — module map and runtime layering.
Working rules
- Reply in the language the user is using.
- Verify changes with
swift buildandswift testbefore claiming a task is done. - Don't reintroduce the Linux/Windows runtimes — OpenAra is macOS-only by design.
- The nine MCP tool names and argument schemas are frozen by OpenAI's Computer Use spec; refactor implementations freely, but never the wire surface.
- Keep upstream attribution in
LICENSEand the README "Credits" section. MIT requires the original copyright notice to remain.
Where things live
apps/OpenAra/— macOS app target (CLI + permissions onboarding GUI).apps/OpenAraFixture/— SwiftUI fixture used by smoke tests.apps/OpenAraSmokeSuite/— automated end-to-end smoke runner.packages/OpenAraKit/— the shared Swift library; the nine tools live underSources/OpenAraKit/Tools/.plugins/openara/— Codex plugin manifest.experiments/— research labs (CursorMotion, StandaloneCursor) that feed back into the cursor overlay.
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 · 27 lines · 319 tokens per session scan A 52b30e5f726e
OpenAra AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Aradotso/OpenAra (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 319 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
barkeep AGENTS.md
Instructions for iannuttall/barkeep, covering agent notes, product rules, repo map, commands and app structure.
Loupe CLAUDE.md
Instructions for smughead/Loupe, covering claude.md, build commands, build the app (from project root), run all tests (unit + ui) and run only spm package unit tests.
barkeep CLAUDE.md
Instructions for iannuttall/barkeep, a project described as: Manage hidden macOS menu bar items from one place.
open-codex-computer-use AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for iFurySt/open-codex-computer-use, covering open-codex-computer-use, 每轮开始先读, 代码改完前要读, 按任务需要选读 and 工作规则.
ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques CLAUDE.md
Instructions for cvs-health/ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques, covering project rules, copyright header (required), rules, swift files and markdown files.
liney AGENTS.md
Instructions for everettjf/liney, covering liney repository collaboration guide, 交流语言 / communication language, project overview, repository layout and build and test.