Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to chuyl/zeroclaw. 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/chuyl/zeroclaw/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chuyl/zeroclawWrote 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/chuyl/zeroclaw/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/chuyl/zeroclaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chuyl/zeroclaw/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/chuyl/zeroclaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/chuyl/zeroclaw/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 | $0.00960 | $0.00960 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00384 | $0.00384 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00192 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00096 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
zeroclaw 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — ZeroClaw
Cross-tool agent instructions for any AI coding assistant working on this repository.
Commands
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test
Full pre-PR validation (recommended):
./dev/ci.sh all
Docs-only changes: run markdown lint and link-integrity checks. If touching bootstrap scripts: bash -n install.sh.
Project Snapshot
ZeroClaw is a Rust-first autonomous agent runtime optimized for performance, efficiency, stability, extensibility, sustainability, and security.
Core architecture is trait-driven and modular. Extend by implementing traits and registering in factory modules.
Key extension points:
src/providers/traits.rs(Provider)src/channels/traits.rs(Channel)src/tools/traits.rs(Tool)src/memory/traits.rs(Memory)src/observability/traits.rs(Observer)src/runtime/traits.rs(RuntimeAdapter)src/peripherals/traits.rs(Peripheral) — hardware boards (STM32, RPi GPIO)
Repository Map
src/main.rs— CLI entrypoint and command routingsrc/lib.rs— module exports and shared command enumssrc/config/— schema + config loading/mergingsrc/agent/— orchestration loopsrc/gateway/— webhook/gateway serversrc/security/— policy, pairing, secret storesrc/memory/— markdown/sqlite memory backends + embeddings/vector mergesrc/providers/— model providers and resilient wrappersrc/channels/— Telegram/Discord/Slack/etc channelssrc/tools/— tool execution surface (shell, file, memory, browser)src/peripherals/— hardware peripherals (STM32, RPi GPIO)src/runtime/— runtime adapters (currently native)docs/— topic-based documentation (setup-guides, reference, ops, security, hardware, contributing, maintainers).github/— CI, templates, automation workflows
Risk Tiers
- Low risk: docs/chore/tests-only changes
- Medium risk: most
src/**behavior changes without boundary/security impact - High risk:
src/security/**,src/runtime/**,src/gateway/**,src/tools/**,.github/workflows/**, access-control boundaries
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 · 93 lines · 960 tokens per session scan A 158750ee00f0
zeroclaw AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chuyl/zeroclaw (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 960 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 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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