Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to automagik-dev/genie. 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/automagik-dev/genie/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automagik-dev/genieWrote 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/automagik-dev/genie/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/automagik-dev/genie/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/automagik-dev/genie/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/automagik-dev/genie/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/automagik-dev/genie/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 | $0.02508 | $0.02508 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01003 | $0.01003 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00502 | $0.00502 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00251 | $0.00251 |
Grade A, and why
genie 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 25d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Genie repository contract
This is the runtime-neutral contributor contract for Claude Code, Codex, and human contributors. Client-specific overlays may add syntax, but they must not contradict this file.
Validate changes
bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run check
bun test path/to/file.test.ts
The full gate runs type checking, Biome, dead-code analysis, skill/wish/council linting, and tests. Tests use bun:test; fixtures belong under a temporary directory and must isolate GENIE_HOME when touching global state.
Architecture
src/genie.tsis the Commander CLI entry point.src/lib/v5/owns SQLite state. The per-repo.genie/genie.dbstores task state and is the only database genie writes; the machine-scope~/.genie/genie.dbpath carries no genie state in v6, and the per-repo opener refuses it so the two can never merge.src/term-commands/ownsinit,context, MCP, task, and board commands.plugins/genie/is retired with the Orca integration: the source tree carries none, and release tarballs keep an emptyplugins/genie/compat directory only because earlier binaries' update path requires it.genie orcais a one-release stub that prints a retirement notice and exits 2.skills/is shared runtime-neutral workflow guidance, delivered to every agent home by the skills channel.genie install/genie updaterun the pinned skills.sh CLI over the local delivered tree and record the result in<GENIE_HOME>/skills-install.json; without the Genie binary the same skills install withnpx skills add automagik-dev/genie, which serves the repository's default branch rather than a release..genie/contains git-tracked wishes, reviewed designs (brainstorms/*/DESIGN.md) and the index, plus gitignored brainstorm working notes and operational SQLite files.
Genie is zero-daemon: every command is fork-and-exit and there is no resident process, optional or otherwise. Do not use telemetry presence as integration health.
Engineering rules
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.
- 25d ago Changed · +4 lines · +88 tokens per session ccbcf0fc55f5
- 1mo ago Changed · -59 tokens per session 4515de191512
- 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines · +1,045 tokens per session 89c1bcfe63d7
- 1mo ago Changed · +40 tokens per session 243aa0d1d3e0
- 1mo ago Changed · +224 tokens per session 5d2256e88e78
- 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 1,170 tokens per session scan A bc2d4c8ef05c
genie AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository automagik-dev/genie (345 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,508 tokens to every session, about $0.0100 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 2026-08-30.
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