octocode: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

octocode AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from bgauryy/octocode. It costs 3,138 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Octocode, a monorepo containing the Octocode platform. A monorepo keeps multiple related packages in one code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when exploring the repository, researching or reviewing changes, editing packages, evaluating results, or verifying changes through the real CLI, MCP, or skill paths.
Why use it?
They tell agents to use Octocode’s own search, GitHub, research, evaluation, and subagent tools instead of unrelated command-line substitutes.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is bgauryy/octocode's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on octocode 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 octocode configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bgauryy/octocode. 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/bgauryy/octocode/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bgauryy/octocode

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.01569 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00628 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00314 $0.00314

Measured 6d ago against content hash 839447f66c23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octocode 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 6d 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 · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Octocode Monorepo

Default agent guide for this repo. Internals: each package’s ARCHITECTURE.md when present.

Dogfood

This monorepo is the platform. Use what we ship — do not reinvent with host defaults.

Need Use Not
Local code search / structure / files / content / LSP Octocode MCP or node packages/octocode/out/octocode.js tools … — all local tools below bare find / grep / rg / cat / ls
GitHub code, repos, PRs/commits, clone same — all GitHub tools below ad-hoc gh / raw API (except when Octocode is unavailable)
npm lookup npmSearch ad-hoc registry curls
Unified research raw tools <name> invocation (CLI or MCP) hand-rolled multi-tool scripts
Research / review / change flows octocode-research skill inventing search loops
Measure “did this help?” / keep-discard octocode-graph-eval skill vibe acceptance / editing graders to pass
Offload low-risk bulk to local Ollama octocode-subagent (references/local-ollama.md) cloud-only token burn / inventing Ollama loops
After a package change rebuild → real CLI / MCP / skill path claim done from compile alone

If dogfooding hurts, fix or record it — do not silently bypass.

Method: Plan → TDD → yarn workspace <pkg> testyarn lint → verify. No backward compat by default — refactor freely; add shims only when asked.

Access: packages/*/src/, tests/, docs/ ✅ · *.json, *.config.*, Cargo.toml, scripts/ ⚠️ ask · .env*, node_modules/, dist/, out/, target/

Architecture

 INTERFACES   octocode-mcp (stdio MCP)   octocode (CLI)   octocode-vscode (VS Code)
                    └─────────────────────┴── depend on ──┐
 BRAIN         @octocodeai/octocode-tools-core  (all tool execution logic)
                    ├── metadata ──▶  @octocodeai/octocode-core  (external: schemas, descriptions, system prompt)
                    ├── native   ──▶  @octocodeai/octocode-engine  (Rust/napi: search, minify, LSP, secrets)
                    └── config   ──▶  @octocodeai/config           (env/config loader — zero-dep, single source)

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 163 lines · 3,138 tokens per session scan A 839447f66c23

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octocode AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bgauryy/octocode (924 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,138 tokens to every session, about $0.0157 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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