TokenEater AGENTS.md

TokenEater AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from AThevon/TokenEater. It costs 5,722 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Agent instructions for TokenEater, a native macOS menu bar app with widgets and a floating overlay that tracks Claude usage limits. They explain the repository layout, documentation roles, language rules, and contribution conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying TokenEater, locating relevant design or setup documentation, choosing commit types, or understanding its app and widget targets.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project context needed to place changes correctly and follow its documentation and commit practices.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/athevon/tokeneater/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AThevon/TokenEater

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 5,722 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5,722 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.05722 $0.05722
Opus 5 $0.02861 $0.02861
Sonnet 5 $0.01144 $0.01144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00572 $0.00572

Measured today against content hash 438aa1f33e44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

TokenEater AGENTS.md scanned grade C 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.tokeneater.shared && \
AGENTS.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

TokenEater is a native macOS menu bar app, plus WidgetKit widgets and a floating overlay, that tracks Claude AI usage limits in real time. This file is the guide for contributors and AI coding agents: how the repo is laid out, how data flows, the rules that are easy to break, and the commands that build, test, and ship it.

It complements the other docs and deliberately does not duplicate them:

  • README.md - what the app does (full feature list), the security and privacy model, the public API shape.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md - contribution workflow, commit conventions, how to get help, the external-contributor signing caveat.
  • SETUP.md - building from source as an end user.
  • docs/design/MASTER.md and docs/design/COLORING.md - the window design system and the Smart Color risk model.

Current version: 5.13.0 (MARKETING_VERSION in project.yml).

Language

  • Everything on GitHub (issues, PRs, commits, branches) is in English.
  • Conventional Commits are preferred (feat:, fix:, chore:, docs:), since they make changelog generation easier. Don't stress about it; a wrong prefix can be fixed on merge.

Repo layout and targets

project.yml is the single source of truth for the project. The .xcodeproj is generated by XcodeGen and is gitignored. Never edit the .xcodeproj directly: those edits are lost on the next generate. To change targets, build settings, schemes, entitlements wiring, the installer prebuild step, or the version, edit project.yml then run xcodegen generate.

A stale ClaudeUsageWidget.xcodeproj may exist locally from before the rename. It is also generated and gitignored. Ignore it.

Three targets:

Target What it is Sources
TokenEaterApp The app host. Non-sandboxed (since v5.0) so it can read the token. LSUIElement (no Dock icon). TokenEaterApp/ + Shared/
TokenEaterWidgetExtension The WidgetKit extension. Sandboxed and read-only (WidgetKit requires app-sandbox: true). TokenEaterWidget/ + Shared/
TokenEaterTests Swift Testing bundle, unsigned. TokenEaterTests/ + Shared/ + the single file TokenEaterApp/OnboardingViewModel.swift

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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.

  1. today Changed 438aa1f33e44
  2. 2d ago Changed 0a0691a5e32e
  3. 6d ago First seen · 250 lines · 5,722 tokens per session scan C cdeebfc91e6f

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TokenEater AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AThevon/TokenEater (496 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 5,722 tokens to every session, about $0.0286 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.