Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to bastani-inc/atomic. 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/bastani-inc/atomic/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bastani-inc/atomicWrote 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/bastani-inc/atomic/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bastani-inc/atomic/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bastani-inc/atomic/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/bastani-inc/atomic/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bastani-inc/atomic/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 | $0.07302 | $0.07302 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02921 | $0.02921 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01460 | $0.01460 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00730 | $0.00730 |
Grade A, and why
atomic AGENTS.md scanned grade A 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 yesterday.
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.
Runs shell commandslowCapability
Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.
`test/helpers/runtime.ts` rather than reaching for `node:fs`/`node:child_process` directly — 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.
- yesterday Changed · +2 lines · +79 tokens per session 10874cef08f2
- 4d ago Changed · -51 tokens per session 1efa3c8c492f
- 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · +138 tokens per session 93ecd2c175d4
- 6d ago Changed · +77 tokens per session ac38bdfcc5e7
- 7d ago Changed · +11 lines · +219 tokens per session 22aaf5e7a526
- 9d ago Changed · +88 tokens per session 74dec7ba8d79
- 1mo ago Changed · +11 tokens per session 2f28fe33bd70
- 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines · -7 tokens per session 6976e65732b3
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +43 tokens per session ed0b0aa117b1
- 1mo ago First seen · 329 lines · 6,705 tokens per session scan A d3bc6a3042e9
atomic AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bastani-inc/atomic (870 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 7,302 tokens to every session, about $0.0292 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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