coding-agent-orchestration AGENTS.md

Repository instructions that define how a coding agent should work in the coding-agent-orchestration project. The project stores workflow state, plans, and history in a .vibe directory, with a stated order for resolving conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide session startup, instruction precedence, and completing one coherent unit of work at a time while following the repository's state, plan, and history files.
Why use it?
They give the agent a reliable starting reading order and explain which files contain current truth, planned work, and background history. This prevents decisions based only on assumptions or stale notes.

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/brifl/coding-agent-orchestration/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brifl/coding-agent-orchestration

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 2,470 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,470 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.
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Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fc0410cb27f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-agent-orchestration 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 · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Execution Contract (Repo Baseline)

Purpose

This file defines the working contract for coding agents and humans collaborating in this repository.

  • This repo uses project-local workflow files stored under .vibe/.
  • The agent must follow the precedence order and stop conditions below.
  • This baseline is intended to be copied into target repos and may drift per project.

Authoritative files and precedence

When instructions conflict, follow this order:

  1. User instructions in the current chat
  2. This file: AGENTS.md
  3. .vibe/STATE.md (current truth: what we are doing now)
  4. .vibe/PLAN.md (checkpoint backlog and acceptance criteria)
  5. .vibe/HISTORY.md (non-authoritative rollups, context only)
  6. Repository source code and tests
  7. Anything else (including assumptions)

Required behavior

Read order at the start of a session

At the start of any new session (or when context is unclear), the agent must:

  1. Read AGENTS.md (optional if already read this session)
  2. Read .vibe/STATE.md
  3. Read .vibe/PLAN.md
  4. Optionally read .vibe/HISTORY.md if needed

Work granularity

  • Do one coherent unit of work at a time (typically one checkpoint step).
  • Prefer small, reviewable diffs.
  • When ambiguity affects correctness, ask 1–2 clarifying questions max as issues in .vibe/STATE.md, then stop.

Deferral for throughput

  • If an issue, checkpoint, or stage is blocked but later independent work can safely proceed, mark it [DEFERRED] and move on instead of stopping the project.
  • Add a short reason and unblock/revisit condition near the deferred item. Waiting on human feedback is a legitimate deferral reason.
  • Do not defer work that a later item depends on unless that later item is also deferred or redesigned; deferral is for preserving momentum, not hiding shaky foundations.
  • Revisit [DEFERRED] items during stage design and consolidation. If the unblock condition is now true, reactivate the item or fold it into the next executable checkpoint.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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 · 190 lines · 2,470 tokens per session scan A 9fc0410cb27f

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coding-agent-orchestration AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brifl/coding-agent-orchestration (20 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,470 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 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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