dotfiles AGENTS.md

Project-specific instructions for agents working on a dotfiles repository, files that configure a developer's computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the repository's configuration, rebuild scripts, package declarations, or documentation.
Why use it?
They record deliberate configuration choices and required project rules, helping agents avoid undoing intentional settings or skipping shared instructions.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/ctt062/dotfiles/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ctt062/dotfiles

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 443 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 443 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00443 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00221 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00089 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash 43af8c4f5bc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotfiles 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 · 23 lines

What it actually says

Project notes for agents

Read this file before doing any work in this repo.

Before anything else, read and follow the global agent instructions in home/AGENTS.md (also available live as ~/.cursor/AGENTS.md). That file is the shared policy installed for Claude, Codex, Cursor, opencode, and Grok via home.nix. Cursor also loads it globally through the global-agents local plugin.

Deliberate decisions

Do not silently revert these:

  • homebrew.onActivation.cleanup = "zap" in configuration.nix is intentional. It forces the good habit of declaring every Homebrew package in the Nix config instead of installing things ad-hoc, which keeps the machine reproducible. Do not soften it to uninstall or none. Users are warned about its effect in README.md; this note is for anyone tempted to change the setting itself.
  • homebrew.onActivation.upgrade = true and greedyCasks = true are intentional so ./rebuild.sh upgrades Claude Code, Codex, and other declared Homebrew packages. Do not turn upgrade back off; autoUpdate alone only refreshes formulae metadata.
  • ./rebuild.sh must not run nix flake update. Rebuild applies the pinned flake.lock and should leave a clean git worktree. Bump inputs with a deliberate nix flake update + commit, not as a side effect of every rebuild.
  • Never commit .no-mistakes/ validation evidence to this public repo. .no-mistakes/ is gitignored; if a validation pipeline stages evidence into a branch, drop it before merging.

Maintaining this file

Keep this file for knowledge useful to almost every future agent session in this project. Do not repeat what the codebase already shows; point to the authoritative file or command instead. Prefer rewriting or pruning existing entries over appending new ones. Keep global agent policy in home/AGENTS.md only - do not duplicate it here. When updating this file, preserve this bar for all agents and keep entries concise.

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. yesterday First seen · 23 lines · 443 tokens per session scan A 43af8c4f5bc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dotfiles AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ctt062/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 443 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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 2026-08-31.

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