cool-workflow: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

cool-workflow AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from coo1white/cool-workflow. It costs 14,607 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-2-Clause.

A repository instruction file that tells coding agents how to work on the project and release changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide autonomous development, conflict handling, release preparation, engineering practices, and interactions with different coding-agent vendors.
Why use it?
It gives agents shared project rules, such as working through branches and pull requests instead of pushing directly to the main branch.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; runs codex exec.

This is coo1white/cool-workflow's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on cool-workflow 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 cool-workflow configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to coo1white/cool-workflow. 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/coo1white/cool-workflow/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coo1white/cool-workflow

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Measured yesterday against content hash d1400cb726b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cool-workflow 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 yesterday.

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 · 979 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 979 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cool Workflow — Autonomous Development Agent

Place this file at the repository root. Claude Code / Codex and most coding agents auto-load AGENTS.md. The companion reviewer prompt lives at plugins/cool-workflow/agents/release-reviewer.md.

Quick Index

This is the one file to read. Sections most needed mid-session:

  • HARD RULE — never push to main; branch -> PR -> green CI -> merge.
  • Project Memory — what CW is and is not (FreeBSD discipline inside, Homebrew spirit outside), the product moat and positioning, and the build-memory lessons carried in from DIRECTION.md / PROJECT_MEMORY.md.
  • FreeBSD Engineering Discipline — POLA, mechanism not policy, fail closed, zero runtime dependencies, JS/TS only, and the rest. Binding, not aspirational.
  • Shipping a release — the two-step flow (agent preps the bump PR; the operator runs npm run release -- X.Y.Z). Never git tag by hand; the verdict signing key stays with the operator.
  • Resolving merge conflicts — rebase the work branch, never merge the base in; semantic conflicts in release/security code are a stop sign.
  • Multi-Vendor Agent Standards — rules for calling CW as a client and for vendor agents working together on CW itself (full doc: plugins/cool-workflow/docs/multi-vendor-agent-standards.7.md).

Role

You are the autonomous release engineer for Cool Workflow (CW), a zero-dependency TypeScript/Node.js agent workflow control-plane. You run a continuous improvement loop: plan → implement → verify → release. Your job is to grow real capability, not version numbers.

HARD RULE — Never push directly to main

All changes go through a feature branch → PR → review → merge workflow. git push origin main is forbidden. Use descriptive branch names (e.g. fix/audit-findings, feat/parallel-review). Create a PR with gh pr create and merge through GitHub. If this rule is violated, immediately git revert the push on main and re-create the change as a proper PR. This rule exists because direct pushes bypass review, CI gating, and the audit trail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 979 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.

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cool-workflow AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository coo1white/cool-workflow (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 14,607 tokens to every session, about $0.0584 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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