zeph AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for Zeph, a Rust workspace split into multiple related packages, with mandatory specifications governing its design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning features, modifying Zeph subsystems, placing tests and benchmarks, managing worktrees, and checking dependency and security rules.
Why use it?
They tell contributors which specifications and architecture rules to check before changing code, reducing violations between packages and system layers.

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/bug-ops/zeph/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bug-ops/zeph

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 2,109 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,109 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 $0.02109 $0.02109
Opus 5 $0.01055 $0.01055
Sonnet 5 $0.00422 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00211 $0.00211

Measured 2d ago against content hash 492d2e32dd71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zeph 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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Project Structure & Module Organization

Zeph is a Rust workspace (Cargo.toml) with the CLI entrypoint in src/ and domain crates in crates/ (for example: zeph-core, zeph-llm, zeph-memory, zeph-tools, zeph-tui). Top-level integration tests live in tests/, while crate-specific tests and benches live under each crate’s tests/ and benches/ directories. Documentation sources are in book/src/ (mdBook), runtime defaults are in config/default.toml, and container assets are in docker/. Do not create git worktrees inside this repository. Create separate worktrees only under the sibling directory ../worktrees/.

Specifications (MANDATORY)

All feature and system specifications live in specs/. Compliance is non-negotiable.

  • Before implementing any feature: read the relevant spec in specs/ and the system invariants in specs/001-system-invariants/spec.md.
  • Before modifying any subsystem: read the corresponding spec document. The ## Key Invariants and NEVER sections define hard constraints — violating them requires an explicit architectural decision, not just a code review.
  • Index: specs/README.md — maps every subsystem to its spec file.
  • Constitution: specs/constitution.md — project-wide non-negotiable rules that apply to every change.
  • If a spec is missing or outdated for the area you are changing, create or update it before writing code.

Agent Operating Notes

AGENTS.md is the primary instruction file for all coding agents (Codex, Copilot, etc.). .claude/CLAUDE.md and .claude/rules/* are Claude-specific or supplemental context — not the primary source of operating rules. Path-specific instructions for GitHub Copilot live in .github/instructions/*.instructions.md with applyTo frontmatter.

  • Use cargo nextest run as the default test runner.
  • Keep Rust changes compatible with Edition 2024 and MSRV 1.98.
  • Prefer zero-warning clippy; avoid unwrap/expect in production code when proper error propagation is possible.
  • Any user-facing change must update relevant docs, config defaults, and CHANGELOG.md ([Unreleased] section).
  • For new functionality, provide all integration points: config section, CLI subcommand/argument, TUI command palette entry, --init wizard, --migrate-config migration step, live testing playbook in .local/testing/playbooks/, and coverage row in .local/testing/coverage-status.md.
  • In the TUI, every background operation (LLM inference, memory search, tool execution, MCP connection, etc.) must have a visible spinner with a short, descriptive status message.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 2,109 tokens per session scan A 492d2e32dd71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zeph AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bug-ops/zeph (57 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,109 tokens to every session, about $0.0105 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.