blurt: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

blurt AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from AssemblyAI/blurt. It costs 30,049 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for coding agents working on Blurt, a macOS dictation app that turns speech into polished text. It explains the project structure, its two instruction layers, and how to check your work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying Blurt, especially its agent instructions, AssemblyAI transcription flow, context handling, macOS integrations, or verification steps.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the project-specific rules and background needed before changing code. This reduces guesswork about how dictation, context, privacy, and verification work.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: SessionStart hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is AssemblyAI/blurt's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on blurt 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 blurt configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to AssemblyAI/blurt. 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/AssemblyAI/blurt/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AssemblyAI/blurt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 30,049 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 30,049 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.30049 $0.30049
Opus 5.5 $0.12020 $0.12020
Sonnet 5.5 $0.06010 $0.06010
Haiku 4.5 $0.03005 $0.03005

Measured today against content hash f29f0cfbafda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blurt 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 today.

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 · 1,433 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,433 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

The canonical agent guide for this repository. CLAUDE.md is a shim that points here; it also maps the Claude-Code-specific tooling under .claude/ (hooks, skills, subagents).

Start here

Blurt is a macOS dictation app powered by AssemblyAI. Tap or hold a trigger key, speak, and polished text is pasted into the focused app. Transcription is one remote AssemblyAI dictation API call: the audio plus a request for the service's server-side LLM cleanup rewrite (config.llm_instruction), so the text that comes back is already polished. (A recording past the streaming route's 120 s cap is the one exception: it is sent again, whole, to the buffered route — see the over-cap fallback.) The user supplies their own API key. The request's stt_prompt carries two context signals, newline-joined oldest first: the user's recent dictations, then the text immediately before the cursor. The frontmost app, the window title, the focused field's label, and the selected text are captured for local work (paste spacing, the injector's window identity, the developer-mode log) and none of them go on the wire. stt_prompt and prompt are the same field, so never send both. The user's key terms ride a second field, keyterms_prompt, as a flat list of strings. See Contextual prompt and key terms.

Four reflexes before you touch anything:

  1. scripts/check.sh is the definition of green — the same script CI runs. Off-Mac, only scripts/check.sh --portable is available and it is not green in the CI sense. See Verifying your work.
  2. Read Settled decisions before changing architecture. Every entry was tried the other way and reverted; reintroducing one is the most likely way to make things worse.
  3. Never hand-edit App/Blurt/Blurt.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj — it is generated from App/Blurt/project.yml. Edit the yml, run xcodegen generate on a Mac, commit the result.
  4. No external SPM dependencies in the engine (rule, guarded by check.sh); the app carries the local BlurtEngine package plus exactly one remote package, Sparkle (the updater), and check.sh rejects any other.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,433 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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blurt AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AssemblyAI/blurt (65 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30,049 tokens to every session, about $0.1202 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 2026-08-31.

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