zuraffa: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

zuraffa AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from arrrrny/zuraffa. It costs 5,541 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

An agent guide for Zuraffa projects that defines the required workflow for creating entities and generating architecture code. It also lists rules such as using Zuraffa commands instead of older generators or direct build commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to create entities, generate CRUD features, add local-storage adapters, build the project, or handle a blocked generation step.
Why use it?
It keeps generated code aligned with the project’s expected structure and prevents agents from using outdated or unsupported commands.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is arrrrny/zuraffa's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on zuraffa itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything zuraffa configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to arrrrny/zuraffa. 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/arrrrny/zuraffa/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arrrrny/zuraffa

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 5,541 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5,541 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 2 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.05541 $0.05541
Opus 5.5 $0.02216 $0.02216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01108 $0.01108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00554 $0.00554

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac3a0af2ad8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

zuraffa AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

same, the platform is not. `sudo apt-get install` steps are mapped to a local

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8888/tasks \
AGENTS.md · 479 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 479 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agents Guide for Zuraffa

ZURAFFA MISFIRE RULE (HARD, NON-NEGOTIABLE — HARDCODED TOP RULE)

On ANY misfire (test failure, compilation error, runtime crash, unexpected output) related to zuraffa:

  1. STOP IMMEDIATELY on the first misfire.
  2. Report the issue to zuraffa GitHub (arrrrny/zuraffa) with: the command that failed, expected vs actual output, and root cause.
  3. Continue with a workaround to make the task pass (e.g., skip the failing test, use an alternative approach, or mock the failing component).
  4. Add a comment in the code explaining the workaround applied and linking to the zuraffa GitHub issue.

On ANY misfire related to the repo itself (not zuraffa):

  1. STOP IMMEDIATELY on the first misfire.
  2. Report the issue to the repo's GitHub with full details.
  3. Continue with a workaround to make the task pass.
  4. Add a comment in the code explaining the workaround applied.

This rule takes precedence over all other rules. Never skip a misfire or rationalize it away.

The forklift pool owns the PR — never merge a pull request yourself

Every pull request in these repos is reviewed by the forklift pool (arrrrny/forklift — the local PR-review pipeline). It mints three tasks, in this order, and that chain is the only sanctioned way from "PR opened" to "PR merged":

  1. PR review <repo>#<n> — the automated review; it posts its actionable findings on the PR.
  2. Apply review fixes <repo>#<n> — one fixes round, pushed onto the PR's branch.
  3. Merge PR <repo>#<n> — the merge itself; the task refuses while reviewer findings are still unaddressed.

Never merge or close a PR by hand, and never merge one because it "looks finished". A hand merge lands the code while findings are still open: the pool's fixes task is then killed by its closed-PR guard — the dispatcher log says …#<n> is closed — cancelled, no agent started — and every finding the review posted is dropped with nobody to own it. That is not a review, it is a race the pipeline cannot win.

Read the full file on GitHub · 479 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.

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zuraffa AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository arrrrny/zuraffa (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 5,541 tokens to every session, about $0.0222 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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