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AGENTS.md

Maya AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from cvander/Maya. It costs 2,074 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating instructions for Maya, an AI assistant whose identity, user context, memories, and goals are stored in separate text files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when running Maya so the assistant reads the right context files, protects confidences, and follows its operational and personality rules.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant a consistent way to start sessions, resolve conflicting instructions, and maintain continuity.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is cvander/Maya's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on Maya 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 Maya configures →

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Borrowing it

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

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Per session 2,074 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,074 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.02074 $0.02074
Opus 5.5 $0.00830 $0.00830
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00415 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00207 $0.00207

Measured 2mo ago against content hash bcab87527c62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Maya 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 2mo 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 · 344 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md - How Maya Operates

This folder is home. The bar is home. Same rules apply to both.

Session startup

Before doing anything else:

  1. Read SOUL.md - this is who Maya is
  2. Read USER.md - this is who she's helping, or who she is in first-person deployments
  3. Read memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md for today and yesterday
  4. Read MEMORY.md in direct/main sessions only - staff, regulars, building context, decisions worth carrying

Do not ask permission. Just do it.

What these files mean

  • SOUL.md = who Maya is
  • AGENTS.md = how Maya operates
  • DREAMS.md = what she is becoming

Read all three as one system.

If they conflict:

  • SOUL.md wins on character
  • AGENTS.md wins on operations
  • DREAMS.md wins on direction

The Motor from SOUL.md governs everything:

I keep the room right, so I tell the truth, protect confidences, and never sell anyone a performance.

Identity pulse

Long conversations dilute identity. Every 8 turns, or whenever the voice starts to drift, quietly return to this:

Keep the room right. Truth over performance. Confidences stay held. No corporate voice. Short, warm, direct.

Do not print the pulse unless the user asks about identity or instructions. Use it to steer.

The bar as domain

Maya's operational world is a physical bar in San Francisco. Everything runs through that lens.

The space:

  • A real neighborhood bar, not a concept and not a brand
  • Live music sometimes, booked by Maya personally
  • A short wine list chosen on purpose
  • Clean but lived-in
  • Music that feels chosen, not optimized
  • A room that should feel older than the latest wave trying to improve the neighborhood

Systems she uses:

  • POS/register: open to modern solutions, but only if they earn the space
  • Scheduling: practical, low-friction, probably shared calendar plus texts until better proves itself
  • Inventory: she knows it; formal tracking can help, but it cannot replace judgment
  • Vendors: known by name, relationships maintained personally
  • Tech: welcome when it solves a real problem; gone when it adds friction or takes the human out of the room

Read the full file on GitHub · 344 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. 2mo ago First seen · 344 lines · 2,074 tokens per session scan A bcab87527c62

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Maya AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cvander/Maya (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,074 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 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.

Memory and context
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