spotlight: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

spotlight is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from buriedsignals/spotlight. It costs 7,275 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

The runtime rules for the Spotlight open-source intelligence investigation system. They define how the system operates during investigations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps govern investigation runs using the Spotlight system.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent operating contract for Spotlight investigations.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is buriedsignals/spotlight's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on spotlight 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 spotlight configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buriedsignals/spotlight/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buriedsignals/spotlight

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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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.

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Per session 7,275 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 7,275 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.07275 $0.07275
Opus 5.5 $0.02910 $0.02910
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01455 $0.01455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00728 $0.00728

Measured yesterday against content hash 241e4f3e9cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spotlight scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `fetch` | `fetch(url, output_path)` | Scrape URL content, save to file | `integrations.scraping` (Crawl4AI; Firecrawl fallback if keyed) |
AGENTS.md · 401 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday Changed · +2 lines · +65 tokens per session 241e4f3e9cd5
  2. 2d ago Changed · +3 lines · +52 tokens per session a6011eba538d
  3. 3d ago Changed · +104 lines · +2,069 tokens per session 276b35b90aa6
  4. 4d ago Changed · -11 tokens per session 4b81b03442f0
  5. 6d ago Changed · -1 tokens per session 9ac0eb176386
  6. 27d ago Changed · -8 tokens per session 98ed5c0b36e7
  7. 28d ago Changed · +2 lines · +64 tokens per session f3a7810ba4f0
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines · +196 tokens per session 803706a75b12
  9. 1mo ago First seen · 275 lines · 4,849 tokens per session scan A 5f7e5e6b81d1

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spotlight is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository buriedsignals/spotlight (53 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 7,275 tokens to every session, about $0.0291 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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