Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to christopherkarani/Swarm. 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/christopherkarani/Swarm/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherkarani/SwarmWrote 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/christopherkarani/swarm/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/christopherkarani/swarm/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/christopherkarani/swarm/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/christopherkarani/swarm/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/christopherkarani/swarm/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 | $0.00377 | $0.00377 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00151 | $0.00151 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00075 | $0.00075 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
Swarm 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Agent Instructions
Public Repository Hygiene
This is the front-facing Swarm GitHub repository. Keep tracked files limited to source code, tests, examples, public documentation, release tooling, and CI.
Do not add or re-track internal planning, audit, marketing, or assistant workspace artifacts. In particular, keep these paths out of Git:
tasks/.claude/.agent_context.md.mcp.jsondocs/plans/docs/prompts/docs/superpowers/docs/work-packages/docs/validation/marketing/website/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.mdHIVE_EXTENSIBILITY_INTEGRATION_PLAN.mdPRODUCTION_READINESS_AUDIT.mddocs/reference/*audit-report.mddocs/reference/documentation-*-report.mddocs/reference/documentation-improvement-plan.mddocs/reference/api-quality-assessment.mddocs/reference/twitter-article-*.mddocs/swarm-hacker-news-blog.md
If a task requires one of those artifacts, keep it local only. Before staging,
run git status --short and make sure none of the paths above are staged. If a
future cleanup finds one tracked again, remove it from Git instead of editing it
as public documentation.
Development Rules
- Preserve unrelated dirty worktree changes.
- Keep edits surgical and matched to the requested behavior.
- Use tests for behavioral changes.
- For public API changes, update source DocC and the remaining public reference
docs:
README.md,docs/guide/*,docs/reference/overview.md,docs/reference/front-facing-api.md, anddocs/reference/api-catalog.md.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 377 tokens per session scan A 9445a977bb94
Swarm AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository christopherkarani/Swarm (587 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 377 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-30.
Swarm AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swarm AGENTS.mdchristopherkarani/Swarm | Instructions file | 587 | 3d ago | MIT | A | 377 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |