Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ArchiveBox/abx-dl. 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/ArchiveBox/abx-dl/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/abx-dlWrote 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/archivebox/abx-dl/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/archivebox/abx-dl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/archivebox/abx-dl/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/archivebox/abx-dl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/archivebox/abx-dl/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 | $0.00705 | $0.00705 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00282 | $0.00282 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00141 | $0.00141 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00071 | $0.00071 |
Grade A, and why
abx-dl AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
plugin_info="$(uv run abx-dl plugins wget)" How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
abx-dl Agent Guide
abx-dl is the standalone downloader/extractor CLI that runs ArchiveBox plugin hooks without a full ArchiveBox collection. Keep this repo on main.
Shared Standards
- Use
uvanduv runfor Python commands. Do not use systempython, direct.venv/bin/python, orpipcommands. - Prefer existing repo patterns, helper APIs, fixtures, scripts, and command surfaces.
- Keep edits focused and minimal. Do not add wrappers, shims, aliases, or extra abstraction layers unless the current code path requires them.
- Do not weaken assertions, skip tests, xfail tests, or accept flaky behavior.
- No mocks, monkeypatches, fakes, simulated handlers, fake binaries, fake hooks, fake buses, or direct shortcuts around user-facing flows.
- Tests and verification should use real CLI commands, real hooks, real installs, real subprocesses, real DB/config rows where present, real files, real URLs or
pytest-httpserver, and existing fixtures. - Assertions must verify real correctness: exit codes, returned values, event records, filesystem contents, field values, output files, and side effects.
- Start behavior fixes with a red failing test when a test is requested or practical.
- Trace root causes from observed behavior. Do not paper over failures with retries, wider timeouts, broad fallbacks, or looser assertions.
- Read
README.mdfor the full CLI, config, plugin, and release surface.
Development Setup
set -Eeuo pipefail
uv sync
help_output="$(uv run abx-dl --help)"
grep -q 'Usage:' <<<"$help_output"
Plugin Inspection
set -Eeuo pipefail
plugin_info="$(uv run abx-dl plugins wget)"
grep -q 'WGET_BINARY=wget' <<<"$plugin_info"
grep -q 'on_Snapshot__35_wget' <<<"$plugin_info"
Basic Usage
uv run abx-dl dl --plugins=title,wget,screenshot,pdf 'https://example.com'
uv run abx-dl dl --output=html,json,txt,pdf,image 'https://example.com'
uv run abx-dl install wget ytdlp chrome
uv run abx-dl config
uv run abx-dl config --get TIMEOUT
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.
- 6d ago Changed · +1 lines · +1 tokens per session ac259f4d47e8
- 2mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 704 tokens per session scan A d088e8d387dd
abx-dl AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ArchiveBox/abx-dl (149 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 705 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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