ai-rules AGENTS.md

A shared instruction file for keeping AI rules, commands, and skills organised across multiple coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing and generating AGENTS.md rules and related instructions for a project.
Why use it?
It gives agents one place to follow project-specific guidance, reducing differences between how they work.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/block/ai-rules/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/ai-rules

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 17 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 17 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00017 $0.00017
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00009
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00003
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00002

Measured yesterday against content hash a1e66b52fcfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-rules 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 1 lines

What it actually says

ai-rules/.generated-ai-rules/ai-rules-generated-AGENTS.md

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 · 1 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A a1e66b52fcfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-rules AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository block/ai-rules (128 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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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