Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to chtnnh/know-code. 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/chtnnh/know-code/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chtnnh/know-codeWrote 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/chtnnh/know-code/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/chtnnh/know-code/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chtnnh/know-code/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/chtnnh/know-code/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chtnnh/know-code/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 | $0.00362 | $0.00362 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00145 | $0.00145 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00072 | $0.00072 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
know-code 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 1mo 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
know-code
This repository dogfoods its own gate.
Required agent loop
- Human:
know-code attest-initonce know-code range beginat start of feature work (2+ commits before push)- know-code-teach → human seals
know-code taught - Agent:
know-code questions→ write.know-code/quiz.json→know-code quiz validate→know-code ask - Agent writes
grade-proposal.json(seeskills/know-code/references/grading-rubric.md) - Human:
know-code grade --review+pass know-code commit -m "…"per commit (quote the message)- Human:
know-code range seal→ push
Debug: know-code status --json · know-code doctor
Quiz schema: docs/quiz · Grading: docs/grading
Never set KNOW_CODE_OVERRIDE or KNOW_CODE_ATTEST_PASSPHRASE from the agent.
Config: ~/.know-code/config.json + gitignored .know-code/config.json
CLI (always local build in this repo): npm run know-code -- …
After npm run build, keep bare know-code pointed here: npm link -w @chtnnh/know-code
(know-code doctor warns if PATH still hits a stale global.)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 362 tokens per session scan A 2c32a8cc107f
know-code AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chtnnh/know-code (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 362 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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