materialize-base AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for Materialize Base, a Deno command-line tool that reads Obsidian Bases files and queries an Obsidian vault. Obsidian is a note-taking app, and a vault is its folder of notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding or changing CLI behavior, working on vault parsing and query planning, updating tests, or consulting the project's Obsidian documentation.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project structure, documentation sources, commands, and conventions needed to change the repository consistently.

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/brandonhorst/materialize-base/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brandonhorst/materialize-base

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 710 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 710 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 $0.00710 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00355 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00071 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 60d8da828d57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

materialize-base 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 · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

This is a Deno CLI to read Obsidian Bases files, and query an Obsidian vault accordingly, and return the output in markdown. Obsidian provides no API for this, so we're doing it ourselves.

Scraped Obsidian Bases docs are all provided in obsidian-base-docs/.

Project Structure & Module Organization

Core CLI logic lives in module.ts, which wires together runtime flags and orchestrates vault queries. Supporting utilities sit under src/, e.g. src/materalize.ts for query planning, src/parse-file.ts for Obsidian markdown ingestion, and src/types.ts for shared interfaces. Tests reside in test/ as *.test.ts files mirroring their source counterparts. Scraped reference material is kept in obsidian-base-docs/; treat it as read-only documentation inputs. Configuration for tasks, formatting, and dependency imports is centralized in deno.json.

Documentation

  • README.md covers CLI usage, expected permissions, and the --vault and --view flags for controlling output.
  • vendor/SKILL.md mirrors the CLI instructions for the Claude skill variant and reiterates the optional --vault override.
  • obsidian-base-docs/ stores scraped Obsidian Bases documentation for reference only; do not modify.

Build, Test, and Development Commands

  • deno task check: Run formatter, linter, and type-check to keep the codebase healthy.
  • deno task test: Execute all unit tests under test/.
  • deno task coverage: Generate coverage data into cov_profile/ and report totals.
  • deno task demo: Try the CLI end-to-end with a local base definition.

Coding Style & Naming Conventions

Default to 2-space indentation and rely on deno fmt for layout. Prefer TypeScript readonly modifiers for data passed across modules, and use explicit return types on exported functions. Follow camelCase for variables and functions, PascalCase for types and classes, and kebab-case for new filenames. Imports should be relative within src/ and managed via deno.json when pulling from @std.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 2d ago First seen · 68 lines · 710 tokens per session scan A 60d8da828d57

Subscribe to this mod's changes

materialize-base AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brandonhorst/materialize-base (5 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 710 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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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