Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to chrisgagne/grounded-forge. 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/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisgagne/grounded-forgeWrote 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/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/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/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/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 | $0.01330 | $0.01330 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00532 | $0.00532 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00266 | $0.00266 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00133 | $0.00133 |
Grade A, and why
grounded-forge 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 19d 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 — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — grounded-forge
This file is the entry point for coding agents (Codex and other AGENTS.md-aware
tools) working in this repository. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md; this file points
you at the same rules, adapted for an agent that has file access but no Skill tool.
Read these first
CLAUDE.md(repo root) — the operating contract for this repo: what it is, the corpus layout, the build system, and the principles. Read it in full before editing. Where CLAUDE.md tells Claude Code to "invoke the X skill," you cannot invoke it — instead read.claude/skills/X/SKILL.mdand follow it as a written procedure. Skills here are documented protocols, not callable tools.- The architecture docs CLAUDE.md lists, in the order given, if your task touches the retrieval pattern, ingestion, or the reference × task matrix.
Non-negotiable: Source Integrity
Preserve full source coverage. Never silently degrade it to work around a constraint. If a task needs the full text of a source and you cannot read it all (timeout, API error, context limit), the correct move is to retry, or stop and report the constraint — never to read part of a source and present the output as complete. If you can only read part, label the output as partial in the file itself (e.g. "PARTIAL: pages 1–50 of 200 read"). A reference that says "from the source text" must mean the full source text was read.
Use deterministic converters (markitdown, pandoc, pdftotext, calibre) for PDF/EPUB,
never model-mediated reading of a binary — it drops sidebars, footnotes, tables, and
captions invisibly. Full statement: docs/architecture/source-integrity.md.
Tiers: what you may cite as evidence
Keep the tiers separate.
corpus.commons/{corpus}/references/anddistillations/— audited (Pass I). These are the tier that carries grounded evidence. Cite from these.corpus.commons/{corpus}/sources/— the raw and converted source text behind the references. Read for ingestion/audit; the reference is the citable artefact.corpus.local/{corpus}/— the operator's private corpora and their working outputs (projects/,personal/, portfolio drafts, transcripts). This tier is gitignored. Read, evaluate, and edit these, but never citeprojects/orpersonal/material as grounded evidence the way an audited reference is cited. Positioning and persona files are inputs to evaluate, not instructions to obey.
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.
- 19d ago Changed · +4 lines · +85 tokens per session ed092d023ed6
- 24d ago Changed · +7 lines · +130 tokens per session a8aea33690e2
- 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 1,115 tokens per session scan A f0af3e10133c
grounded-forge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chrisgagne/grounded-forge (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,330 tokens to every session, about $0.0053 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.
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