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.
npx agentmods add instructions/charmbracelet/pop/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charmbracelet/popWhat 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 | $0.01462 | $0.01462 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00731 | $0.00731 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00292 | $0.00292 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00146 | $0.00146 |
Grade A, and why
pop 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guide for AI agents working on the Pop codebase.
What is Pop?
Pop is a command-line email client built in Go. It supports two delivery methods — Resend (OAuth or API key) and SMTP — and provides both an interactive TUI (Bubble Tea) and non-interactive CLI sending.
Build & Development Commands
task build # Build the project
task lint # Run golangci-lint (strict config in .golangci.yml)
task lint:fix # Auto-fix lint issues
task vet # Run go vet
task test # Run tests
task fmt # Format code (gofumpt + goimports)
task tidy # Tidy go modules
task # Run the project (go run . {{.CLI_ARGS}})
Always run task lint before committing. The linter enables gofumpt and
goimports formatters, wrapcheck (errors from external packages must be
wrapped with fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err)), goconst (repeated string literals
should be constants), gosec, revive, and others.
Architecture
Source Layout
All source files are in the package root (no sub-packages):
main.go— Root cobra command, flag definitions, delivery method detection, non-interactive send pathmodel.go— Bubble Tea TUI model (Model), state machine, view renderingkeymap.go— TUI key bindings and helpemail.go— Email sending logic (SMTP via go-simple-mail, Resend via resend-go), Markdown-to-HTML conversion (goldmark)attachments.go— Attachment list item type and delegate for the TUIauth.go— OAuth 2.0 with PKCE: token storage, client registration, token exchange, refresh, callback serverauth_cli.go— Non-interactive OAuth flow (stdin not a terminal)auth_ui.go— Interactive OAuth flow (Bubble Tea TUI with spinner states)style.go— Lipgloss styles and charmtone color paletteskill.go—pop skillcommand (prints skill definition)skill.md— Embedded skill body (viago:embed)install_skill.go—pop install-skillcommand with per-agent subcommands
CLI vs TUI
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 147 lines · 1,462 tokens per session scan A 1d5e2fc3b190
pop AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository charmbracelet/pop (2,905 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,462 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 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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vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
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