Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to cluesmith/codev. 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/cluesmith/codev/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cluesmith/codevWrote 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/cluesmith/codev/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/cluesmith/codev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/cluesmith/codev/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/cluesmith/codev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/cluesmith/codev/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 | $0.02400 | $0.02400 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00960 | $0.00960 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00480 | $0.00480 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00240 | $0.00240 |
Grade A, and why
codev 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- codev CLAUDE.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Codev Project Instructions for AI Agents
Always-On Engineering Context (hot tier)
Curated, always-on guidance — consult before deciding. Use each "consult when…" map to open the full arch.md / lessons-learned.md when relevant.
@codev/resources/arch-critical.md @codev/resources/lessons-critical.md
The block above is auto-generated from the hot tier by
codev init/codev update— edit those source files, not the block. Their COLD counterparts (codev/resources/arch.md,lessons-learned.md) are on-demand archives; the "consult when…" maps point into them. New facts are routed by tier at review time and policed during MAINTAIN.
AGENTS.md is a byte-identical twin of this file for tools that read the AGENTS.md standard. Any edit here must be applied there.
This repository is Codev, built with Codev
Two trees, and the distinction governs almost every change:
| Tree | What it is | When you edit it |
|---|---|---|
codev/ |
Our instance — our specs, plans, reviews, resources | Implementing a feature for Codev |
codev-skeleton/ |
The template shipped to adopters — protocols, roles, templates, agents | Changing what other projects receive |
A framework change usually belongs in both. codev-skeleton/ carries no specs or
plans — those are created by the projects that install it.
How framework files resolve
Protocols, prompts, roles and templates resolve at runtime through four tiers, highest
first: .codev/<path> → codev/<path> → runtime cache → installed package skeleton.
The absence of codev/protocols/<name>/ is normal, not a missing reference — it means the
protocol resolves from the installed package. Only protocols you customize need a local copy.
When codev update merges a template that references a protocol you don't have locally, keep
the reference.
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 · +21 tokens per session 3a68f9ec6999
- 2mo ago Changed · +20 tokens per session 20d7de1b8561
- 2mo ago First seen · 205 lines · 2,359 tokens per session scan A 939e4b9b7c65
codev AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cluesmith/codev (297 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,400 tokens to every session, about $0.0096 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.
codev AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| codev AGENTS.mdcluesmith/codev | Instructions file | 297 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 2,400 | 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 |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| 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 |