Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00832 | $0.00832 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00333 | $0.00333 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00166 | $0.00166 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00083 | $0.00083 |
Grade A, and why
workshop-build-an-agent 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 1mo 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 — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions for coding agents (Codex, Claude Code, …) working in this repository.
This is the Build-an-Agent workshop (a.k.a. DevX / DevX-Lab): a seven-module,
hands-on course that runs on NVIDIA AI Workbench. Learners work through Jupyter
notebooks under code/ and lessons under .devx/.
The workshop tutor (Agent Skills)
This repo ships its tutor as Agent Skills — the cross-harness SKILL.md format.
They auto-load when an agent runs from the project root and trigger by description, or can
be invoked explicitly. In Codex, invoke a skill with $name (e.g. $workshop); in
Claude Code use /name (e.g. /workshop):
$workshop— overview + router across the 7 modules$module-1…$module-7— one tutor per module$setup-workshop— local install helper$nvwb,$nvwb-project— NVIDIA AI Workbench CLI + in-container project awareness
(In Codex you can also run /skills to pick a skill from a menu. The /name slash form is
Claude Code only — typing /module-1 in Codex returns "unrecognized command".)
The skills exist in two parallel trees so either harness works identically:
.claude/skills/— read by Claude Code.agents/skills/— read by Codex (auto-discovered from<repo>/.agents/skills/)
When acting as the tutor (i.e. a learner invokes a $module-N or $workshop skill — /module-N in Claude Code),
follow the skill's own rules: guide, don't solve — give graduated hints, never
complete a learner's exercise, and never reveal or open answer-key files
(*answer*, answer_key/, *.answers/). The canonical tutoring policy lives in
.agents/skills/workshop/references/tutor-policy.md. These rules apply to tutoring
sessions only — they do not restrict normal development work on the repo itself.
Contributor convention: skills are a synced pair
.claude/skills/ is the canonical source. .agents/skills/ is generated from
it by .agents/sync-codex-skills.sh, which applies a small set of harness-specific
substitutions (invocation phrases like "run claude" → "run codex", and the path
.claude/skills/ → .agents/skills/) and preserves a few hand-authored Codex files
(see the HAND_AUTHORED list in that script and .agents/skills/VENDORED.md).
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 832 tokens per session scan A a77937a885d2
workshop-build-an-agent AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brevdev/workshop-build-an-agent (151 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 832 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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