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/bgill55/daedalus/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bgill55/daedalusWhat 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 | $0.00797 | $0.00797 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00398 | $0.00398 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00159 | $0.00159 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00080 | $0.00080 |
Grade A, and why
daedalus 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 — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Daedalus — Agent Conventions
Project Identity
- Name: Daedalus (
daedalus-clion npm) - Description: Local-first AI coding CLI with embedded model router, multi-agent orchestration, and codebase indexing
- Language: TypeScript (ESM,
"type": "module") - Node: >=20
Code Conventions
- No comments in source files unless absolutely necessary for clarity
- No emoji in code or docs unless user explicitly requests
- Exports: named exports only (no default exports)
- Types: Zod schemas in config files, interfaces in
src/types.ts - Imports: always include
.jsextension in ESM imports (e.g.,'./file.js') - Error handling: throw typed errors, prefer
resultpattern for tool returns
Architecture
src/index.ts— CLI entry point, REPL loop, command dispatchsrc/config/— Zod-schema validated config at~/.daedalus/config.jsonsrc/router/— Model routing (priority/round-robin/fastest), health checks, rate limiting (token bucket, no global Map)src/session/— SQLite-backed session persistence, project memory, JSONL export; DB opened viainitIndexDb()factory, not at import time;sigma-mem.ts= Σ-Mem reliable memory engine (dedup viacontent_hash, tag-ranked retrieval, time decay), used by BOTH orchestration and single-agent pathssrc/agents/— Multi-agent orchestration (Daedalus/orchestrator, Themis/spec, Metis/planner, Hephaestus/coder, Apollo/reviewer, Asclepius/debugger, Mnemosyne/researcher — each role carries a divine callsign, machine key in parentheses);/autopilotcommand orchestrates end-to-end feature branches;loop.tsuses dynamicimport()forOrchestrator, no circular dependencysrc/tools/— 16 built-in tools + MCP transport (stdio + HTTP/SSE)src/indexing/— FTS5 codebase indexing (TS/JS, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C/C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Elixir)
Testing
- Framework: vitest
- Run:
npm test(vitest run, 1326+ tests across 106 files) - Tests co-located as
*.test.tsundersrc/
Lint
- Framework: eslint v10 (flat config)
- Run:
npm run lint(eslint src --ext .ts)
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 · 49 lines · 797 tokens per session scan A 853ec1b5f162
daedalus AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bgill55/daedalus (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 797 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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 2026-08-31.
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