Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to btseee/clean-code-skills. 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/btseee/clean-code-skills/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/btseee/clean-code-skillsWrote 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/btseee/clean-code-skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/btseee/clean-code-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/btseee/clean-code-skills/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/btseee/clean-code-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/btseee/clean-code-skills/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 | $0.01273 | $0.01273 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00509 | $0.00509 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00255 | $0.00255 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00127 | $0.00127 |
Grade A, and why
clean-code-skills 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 22d 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.
This is a copy
81% identical to clean-code-skills clean-code.instructions.md — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions for AI coding agents (Codex CLI, Jules, opencode, Amp, Gemini CLI when configured for AGENTS.md, and any other harness that reads this file). In a project that installs this package, the managed block below is kept up to date by the installer; content outside the markers is never touched.
Load and apply the clean-code skill before non-trivial code writing, editing, review, testing, or refactoring. Depending on the install target, the skill lives at .claude/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, .github/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, or in the agent's global skill registry as clean-code.
Clean Code Rules (clean-code-skills)
Non-negotiable for all code work.
Read the skill before non-trivial work. First existing path wins: .claude/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, .github/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md, skills/clean-code/SKILL.md. Then your stack's packs, named by the skill's scripts/detect_stack.py or references/framework-map.md.
Load project context first. If present: .clean/context.json, .clean/architecture.md, .clean/decisions.md, .clean/ledger.md, .clean/structure.md rows for your area; then project instruction files. Recorded decisions are settled. Project instructions outrank this block.
Work Loop
- Frame: behavior change, design-relevant assumptions, smallest scope, success check.
- Read first: nearby code, naming, tests, error style, framework idioms; search for existing implementations.
- Place: owning unit; which side of which boundary.
- Edit surgically: smallest diff, targeted edits (no whole-file regeneration), nothing unrelated; remove what your change orphaned.
- Verify: narrowest meaningful check, broader as risk demands.
- Review the diff against these rules, missing tests included.
Layers
- Undeclared layers (
.clean/architecture.md): follow framework pack's idiomatic structure. - Declared: Dependency Rule strict; source dependencies point inward, to higher-level policy; nothing inner names anything outer (class, function, variable, annotation, data format).
- Business rules highest; database, web, UI, framework are details behind policy-owned interfaces.
- SQL stays in data access; rows, ORM types, framework request/response objects never travel inward. Never derive business objects from framework base classes or annotate them; dependency-injection wiring in
main. - Component graph acyclic; no speculative boundary, layer, or service.
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.
- 22d ago Changed · -3 lines · -355 tokens per session 7436c790c1a7
- 1mo ago Changed · +25 tokens per session 3ff7527029f3
- 1mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 1,603 tokens per session scan A 00e3753e3652
clean-code-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository btseee/clean-code-skills (14 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,273 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to clean-code-skills clean-code.instructions.md, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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