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.
npx agentmods add instructions/axiomhq/cli/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomhq/cliWhat 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 | $0.01035 | $0.01035 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00517 | $0.00517 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00207 | $0.00207 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
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 2d 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 — 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 withNewCmd(f *cmdutil.Factory)constructor<command>_<subcommand>.go- Subcommands
Commands are grouped:
- Core:
ingest,query,stream- 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 1,035 tokens per session scan A 77f720daae70
cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository axiomhq/cli (59 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,035 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 per session on Opus 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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