kb: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

kb AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from compozy/kb. It costs 4,960 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for kb, a Go command-line program that builds and maintains topic-based knowledge bases. A knowledge base here is an organized collection of notes gathered from sources and indexed for search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand kb's workflow, locate its specifications and reference code, and run the required verification commands before finishing work.
Why use it?
It explains the project's source of truth and the checks required to confirm that a change is formatted, linted, tested, built, and within its intended boundaries.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is compozy/kb's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on kb itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kb configures →

View source ↗ compozy/kb
Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to compozy/kb. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/compozy/kb/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/compozy/kb

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5.5 $0.01984 $0.01984
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Measured 3d ago against content hash 825721e12a95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb 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 3d 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.

AGENTS.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Project Overview

kb is a single-binary Go CLI for building and maintaining topic-based knowledge bases in the Karpathy KB pattern. It handles the non-LLM workflow: topic scaffolding, multi-source ingestion, structural linting, codebase analysis, QMD indexing/search, and KB-oriented inspection commands. Semantic judgments (ingest gates, classification, linking, retrieval) go through a required decision model (Jev over OpenRouter); a generation model writes only short literals, never article prose.

Reference TypeScript source: ~/dev/projects/kodebase

Source of Truth

  • KB pivot tech spec: .compozy/tasks/kb-pivot/_techspec.md
  • KB pivot task tracker: .compozy/tasks/kb-pivot/_tasks.md
  • KB pivot workflow memory: .compozy/tasks/kb-pivot/memory/
  • Decision model spec (kb-jev, revision 3): .wayfinder/kb-jev/spec.md; cross-package contracts: .claude/plans/kb-jev.md; domain vocabulary: CONTEXT.md

Critical Rules

  • make verify is the non-negotiable completion gate: fmt -> lint -> test -> build -> boundaries.
  • make lint must report zero findings.
  • Use go get for dependency changes.
  • Never use destructive git restore/reset/checkout/clean/rm commands without explicit approval.
  • Prefer local repository inspection over web search for codebase questions.
  • kb-written frontmatter keys carry no namespace prefix: they are plain (summary, concepts, triage, genre, ...) and ownership comes from decisions.OwnedKeys plus value hashes.

Build Commands

make verify              # fmt -> lint -> test -> build -> boundaries
make fmt                 # gofmt over repository Go files
make lint                # golangci-lint v2
make test                # unit tests with -race via gotestsum
make test-integration    # unit + integration tests with -race and -tags integration
make build               # build ./... and bin/kb with ldflags
make deps                # go mod tidy
make help                # mage target list

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 3d ago Changed 825721e12a95
  2. 26d ago Changed · +55 lines · +2,797 tokens per session a910b8fa3c33
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 2,163 tokens per session scan A 66bc029a4fda

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kb AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository compozy/kb (112 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,960 tokens to every session, about $0.0198 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.

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