Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to barefootford/buttercut. 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/barefootford/buttercut/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/barefootford/buttercutWrote 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/barefootford/buttercut/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/barefootford/buttercut/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/barefootford/buttercut/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/barefootford/buttercut/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/barefootford/buttercut/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 | $0.05167 | $0.05167 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02067 | $0.02067 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01033 | $0.01033 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00517 | $0.00517 |
Grade B, and why
buttercut AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.
Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping
Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.
**If skills aren't showing up in Claude Code:** check that `.claude/skills` is a symlink to `../skills` (`ls -la .claude/skills` should show `.claude/skills -> ../skills`). If it's a regular directory or missing entirely The source is not reproduced here
A licence we could not identify
The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +38 tokens per session 50431d975853
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +155 tokens per session 8efc954d25ad
- 2mo ago First seen · 182 lines · 4,974 tokens per session scan B 70f7e39ac452
buttercut AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository barefootford/buttercut (617 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 5,167 tokens to every session, about $0.0207 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
buttercut AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| buttercut AGENTS.mdbarefootford/buttercut | Instructions file | 617 | 15d ago | none | B | 5,167 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |