polaris: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

polaris AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from BeyondTheProtocol/polaris. It costs 2,466 tokens per session, scanned C, original, AGPL-3.0.

A project instruction file for coding agents working on the Polaris repository. It explains the project, where to start, and rules agents must follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide agent work on the Polaris codebase and keep different agents following the same repository rules.
Why use it?
It gives agents shared context and constraints before they change files or use tools.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is BeyondTheProtocol/polaris's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on polaris itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything polaris configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to BeyondTheProtocol/polaris. 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/BeyondTheProtocol/polaris/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BeyondTheProtocol/polaris

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 2,466 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,466 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02466 $0.02466
Opus 5.5 $0.00986 $0.00986
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00493 $0.00493
Haiku 4.5 $0.00247 $0.00247

Measured yesterday against content hash ed34fe56016a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

polaris AGENTS.md scanned grade C 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf "$SCRATCH"
AGENTS.md · 66 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 2,466 tokens per session scan C ed34fe56016a

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polaris AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BeyondTheProtocol/polaris (49 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 2,466 tokens to every session, about $0.0099 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-07.

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