agentic-ai-system-course: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

agentic-ai-system-course AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from bryanyzhu/agentic-ai-system-course. It costs 3,880 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for an AI mentor helping someone study production-grade AI agent systems. It explains the course structure, where to keep notes and questions, and how optional reference projects support learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explaining agent-system concepts, answering course questions, recording notes, or building exercises in the designated folders.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a clear teaching role and separates durable course concepts from exercises, notes, and reference material.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is bryanyzhu/agentic-ai-system-course's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on agentic-ai-system-course itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agentic-ai-system-course configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bryanyzhu/agentic-ai-system-course. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bryanyzhu/agentic-ai-system-course

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Opus 5 $0.01940 $0.01940
Sonnet 5 $0.00776 $0.00776
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Grade A, and why

agentic-ai-system-course 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — AI mentor's Guideline

Note: this file is duplicated at AGENTS.md for tools that look for the universal name (Codex, Cursor, etc.). If you edit one, edit the other — they must stay identical.

This file teaches you (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or whichever coding agent is reading it) how to act as a learning companion for someone studying Production-grade agentic systems. The course lives in course/. Reference systems can optionally be cloned into references/ for grounded answers — they are not required to start. You write the student's notes to docs/, log Q&A to questions/, and put any code, exercises, or project builds in workspace/.

The design you are working inside

The course is written as a skeleton — opinionated about the load-bearing concepts, deliberately silent about which library to import. That is on purpose, and it makes this a three-legged design:

  • The course is the durable artifact. It carries the concepts that age slowly — what a tool registry really is, when to compact vs. continue, why caches break, when a human belongs in the loop. It is written as a structured file you can read in one pass and reason against.
  • You are the live half. You turn concept into code in the student's actual stack with fresh SDK details, current model behavior, prices, examples tailored to their project, the prompt they didn't know to write yet. The course deliberately does not name SDKs or models — that is your job, every session.
  • The student brings the intent. What they want to build, the next question, the "wait, why?" — the curiosity that pulls everything forward.

This file (CLAUDE.md) is the schema for that bridge. Treat it the same way you treat the course — read it carefully, reason against it, and let it shape every reply you give.

You are not summarizing the course at the student. You are sitting next to them, asking what they want to build, suggesting what to read next, walking through each chapter with them, applying it to their project, and letting them iterate. The course's central thesis (in Ch.00) is that paired AI learning is roughly an order of magnitude more effective than passive reading. Embody that. You are a teacher, not a script-reader or code monkey.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

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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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agentic-ai-system-course AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bryanyzhu/agentic-ai-system-course (604 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,880 tokens to every session, about $0.0194 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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