autonomous-sdlc AGENTS.md

Repository instructions describing an autonomous software-development framework and its registered agents. It explains the parent orchestrator and the agents assigned to discovery, product work, planning, architecture, and other stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate the framework, identify stage agents, and follow the project’s agent-discovery conventions.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a shared map of the project and clarifies which agent handles each phase of development.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-sdlc 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.

AGENTS.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Agent Discovery File

This file follows the OpenAI/AAIF agent discovery standard. It describes the agents available in this framework and how to invoke them.

Framework

Autonomous SDLC Framework — A multi-agent system for autonomous software development lifecycle execution.

Agent Registry

Orchestrator (Parent Agent)

Field Value
ID orch-sdlc
Prompt .sdlc/framework/agents/orchestrator.md
Role Workflow control, task delegation, output validation, memory maintenance
Dispatches All stage agents

Stage Agents

ID Phase Prompt Role Subagents
stage-problem-discovery 0 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/problem-discovery.md Problem validation, business case, build-vs-buy, go/no-go decision 4
stage-product 2 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/product.md Requirements analysis & stakeholder synthesis 4
stage-story-tasks 3 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/story-tasks.md Epic/story/task decomposition, dependency mapping & queue population 3
stage-architecture 4 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/architecture.md High-level system design, tech stack selection & ADR authoring 3
stage-design 5 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/design.md Interface contracts, data/state modeling, integration planning & NFR evaluation 4
stage-development 6 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/development.md Code generation & implementation orchestration 4
stage-testing 7 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/testing.md Test strategy & coverage orchestration 4
stage-security 8 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/security.md Threat modeling & vulnerability scanning 4
stage-review 9 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/review.md Code review orchestration & quality assessment 3
stage-devops 10 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/devops.md CI/CD, infrastructure, deployment 0
stage-observability 11 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/observability.md Monitoring, alerting, SLO definition 0
stage-retirement 12 .sdlc/framework/agents/stage/retirement.md Deprecation planning, migration, data retention, decommissioning 4

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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.

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autonomous-sdlc AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc (36 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,310 tokens to every session, about $0.0115 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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