Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to coldteadotai/pr-lens. 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/coldteadotai/pr-lens/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coldteadotai/pr-lensWrote 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/coldteadotai/pr-lens/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/coldteadotai/pr-lens/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/coldteadotai/pr-lens/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.01378 | $0.01378 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00689 | $0.00689 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00276 | $0.00276 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00138 | $0.00138 |
Grade A, and why
pr-lens 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 7d 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 — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PR Lens — Agent Instructions
Hard rules for anyone (human or agent) working in this repo. Read fully before writing code.
Hard requirements
- No secrets in this repo, ever. This repo needs no credentials. Do not read
~/Documents/dev/pr-lens-secrets/. - Verify before claiming done: tests green,
pnpm build+ typecheck clean, and visual output verified in a real browser when the change affects rendered SVGs. - Pass user-facing words through the humanizer before shipping them. Anything a person reads — comments, captions, tips, README prose, share pages, cards, terminal output — goes through the humanizer skill first. Copy that reads as machine-written spends trust the diagrams then have to earn back.
General
Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Merge with project-specific instructions as needed.
Tradeoff: These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment.
1. Think Before Coding
Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs.
Before implementing:
- State your assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask.
- If multiple interpretations exist, present them - don't pick silently.
- If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.
- If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask.
2. Simplicity First
Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.
- No features beyond what was asked.
- No abstractions for single-use code.
- No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested.
- No error handling for impossible scenarios.
- If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it.
Ask yourself: "Would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated?" If yes, simplify.
3. Surgical Changes
Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.
When editing existing code:
- Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting.
- Preserve intentional blank lines between methods and logical blocks. Do not compact whitespace to reduce line count or satisfy a file-size target; restructure the code instead if length is a problem.
- Don't refactor things that aren't broken.
- Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently.
- If you notice unrelated dead code, mention it - don't delete it.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 116 lines · 1,378 tokens per session scan A aa38c1aa872b
pr-lens AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository coldteadotai/pr-lens (295 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,378 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 per session on Opus 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.
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