What is mcpforwork AGENTS.md?

A repository instruction file that tells coding agents and contributors which product rules, architecture choices, testing methods, and backlog steps to follow.

Use it to guide agent-assisted development, enforce product boundaries, organize work through a backlog, and keep tests and contributions consistent.

It gives everyone one shared set of rules, reducing conflicting changes and missed requirements. TDD means writing a failing test first, then code to pass it; zero mocks means tests use real or recorded dependencies instead of fake substitutes.

How avivancos/mcpforwork configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to avivancos/mcpforwork. 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/avivancos/mcpforwork/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avivancos/mcpforwork

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,977 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,977 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01977	$0.01977
Opus 5.5	$0.00791	$0.00791
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00395	$0.00395
Haiku 4.5	$0.00198	$0.00198

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ba0ba44e4ba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcpforwork 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 2mo 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.

AGENTS.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — source of truth for all agents and contributors

Everything here binds every coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and every human contributor. CLAUDE.md only adds Claude-Code-specific notes; on conflict, this file wins. All prose, code, comments, and docs are English-only.

The full product specification lives in docs/PRODUCT_PLAN.md. Section references such as "§Architecture spec" point there.

1. Product invariants (never violate)

The LLM is the client. No server-side LLM calls, ever. No openai/anthropic SDK importable from domain/, services/, ports/, or packs/ — enforced by import-linter in CI.
Graduated autonomy, consent-based. Never submit without a recorded consent check: request_submit is the only place a submit directive can be issued, and consent artifacts (L1 approval, L2 policy) are written exclusively by the human-session HTTP API — never by an MCP tool (ADR 0005). Supervised (L0) is the default.
Open-core. Every feature works self-hosted on SQLite with no account. Hosted-only concerns (Postgres/RLS, Stripe, mailer) live behind ports.
Never fabricate. Every generation brief includes a facts inventory; drafts may only claim what the profile proves. Gaps are acknowledged, never stuffed.
Sector/country logic is data, not code. Site knowledge ships as versioned packs in packs/, updatable independently of releases.
User owns their data. Export/delete paths are mandatory for any new personal-data table; EEO data is optional and privacy-gated.

2. Architecture (pragmatic hexagonal)

src/mcpforwork/
  domain/       # PURE logic, no I/O; imports nothing from any other layer
  services/     # use cases; signatures (uow, user_id, ...); caller commits;
                # consent + caps + dedup gates live here
  ports/        # typing.Protocol seams ONLY: Database/UoW, Mailer, Billing,
                # FileStore, Clock
  adapters/     # driven implementations: db/{sqlite,postgres}, billing, mail, files
  entrypoints/  # driving, all thin (auth + serialization only): mcp, api, cli
  packs/        # DATA not code: country/sector source packs + schema validator

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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.

2mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 1,977 tokens per session scan A ba0ba44e4ba9

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mcpforwork AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository avivancos/mcpforwork (0 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,977 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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.

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

mcpforwork: Instructions file for Codex

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

AGENTS.md — source of truth for all agents and contributors

1. Product invariants (never violate)

2. Architecture (pragmatic hexagonal)

What this file has done since we first saw it

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