Automattic/wp-calypso is the JavaScript front end for WordPress.com, using a single-page web application and the WordPress.com REST API to provide a dashboard for reading, writing, and managing WordPress sites. It is used by WordPress.com users and contributors working on the dashboard. The catalogue items support coding-agent work on this application.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Automattic/wp-calypso. 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/Automattic/wp-calypso/trunk/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypsoWrote 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/automattic/wp-calypso/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/automattic/wp-calypso/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/automattic/wp-calypso/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/automattic/wp-calypso/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/automattic/wp-calypso/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 | $0.02364 | $0.02364 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00946 | $0.00946 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00473 | $0.00473 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00236 | $0.00236 |
Grade A, and why
wp-calypso 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.
The source is not reproduced here
Licensed GPL-2.0
The repository is licensed GPL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
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.
- today First seen · 124 lines · 2,364 tokens per session scan A a99e0bdd844b
wp-calypso AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Automattic/wp-calypso (12,650 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-2.0. It adds 2,364 tokens to every session, about $0.0095 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 2026-11-07.
wp-calypso AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wp-calypso AGENTS.mdAutomattic/wp-calypso | Instructions file | 13k | today | GPL-2.0 | A | 2,364 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 275k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |