What is cli AGENTS.md?

A development guide for the Axiom command-line application. It describes build and test commands, the program entry point, and the factory that shares configuration and API clients across commands.

It helps build, test, lint, format, install, and document the Go command-line tool, as well as understand how its commands and authenticated API clients are connected.

It gives coding agents the project's expected workflow and structure, making changes less likely to break builds, tests, or command behavior.

How axiomhq/cli configures Claude Code and Codex

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to axiomhq/cli. 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/axiomhq/cli/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomhq/cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 1,022 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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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	$0.01022	$0.01022
Opus 5.5	$0.00409	$0.00409
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00204	$0.00204
Haiku 4.5	$0.00102	$0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 89c1f510e59e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli 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 1mo 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 · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance to AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.) when working with code in this repository.

Build & Development Commands

make dep          # Install and verify dependencies
make build        # Build binaries (uses goreleaser snapshot)
make test         # Run all tests with race detection
make lint         # Run golangci-lint
make fmt          # Format code with golangci-lint fmt
make install      # Install binary to $GOPATH/bin
make man          # Generate man pages
make completions  # Generate shell completion scripts
make all          # Run dep, generate, fmt, lint, test, build, man

Run a single test:

go test -race -run TestName ./path/to/package

Verbose test output:

make test VERBOSE=1

Architecture

Entry Point

cmd/axiom/main.go - Sets up signal handling, creates the Factory, configures survey prompts, and executes the root command.

Factory Pattern

internal/cmdutil/factory.go - The Factory struct bundles shared resources (Config, IO) and provides methods like Client() to create authenticated Axiom API clients. It flows through the entire command hierarchy.

Command Structure

Commands live in internal/cmd/<command>/ with a consistent pattern:

<command>.go - Main command with NewCmd(f *cmdutil.Factory) constructor
<command>_<subcommand>.go - Subcommands

Commands are grouped:

Core: ingest, query - Data operations
Management: annotation, config, dataset - Resource management
Additional: auth, completion, version, web

Configuration

internal/config/config.go - TOML-based config (~/.axiom.toml) with environment variable overrides via AXIOM_ prefix (token, org_id, url, deployment). Supports multiple named deployments.

Client

internal/client/client.go - Wraps axiom-go SDK with CLI-specific HTTP transport settings. Uses github.com/axiomhq/axiom-go/axiom for all API operations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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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1mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 1,035 tokens per session scan A 77f720daae70

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cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository axiomhq/cli (60 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,022 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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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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).

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cli: Instructions file for Claude Code