arcforge: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

arcforge AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from d4rkNinja/arcforge. It costs 1,290 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Arcforge, a portable collection of skills for AI coding agents. They define rules for maintaining skills, documenting behavior, reviewing changes, and verifying the repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding or changing an Arcforge skill. They cover reading linked guidance, keeping skill files portable and within size limits, preserving required sections, and running the repository review process.
Why use it?
They reduce inconsistent skill behavior by requiring shared formats, project-specific guidance, tests or behavioral cases, and review checks before changes are considered complete.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is d4rkNinja/arcforge's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on arcforge 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 arcforge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to d4rkNinja/arcforge. 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/d4rkNinja/arcforge/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d4rkNinja/arcforge

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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arcforge 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 1mo 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 · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Instructions for Coding Agents

Purpose

This repository publishes portable Agent Skills for production system architecture. Core behavior belongs in the portable skill format and must remain usable across compatible runtimes.

Portable skills live under skills/*/. Each skill must remain usable by Claude Code, Codex, and other Agent Skills-compatible runtimes without depending on a vendor-specific control plane.

Required workflow

  1. Read the affected SKILL.md and its linked references completely.
  2. Add or update a runtime-neutral behavioral case before changing observable behavior, then review it with an approved target model.
  3. Keep skill frontmatter valid and make the directory name equal to the frontmatter name.
  4. Keep each primary SKILL.md at 500 lines or fewer; move deep material into references/, reusable forms into assets/, and worked calibration artifacts into examples/.
  5. Preserve the exact headings ## Output Contract and ## Stop Conditions in each primary skill.
  6. Run portable skill discovery and perform the repository review checklist before claiming completion.
  7. Read full output and report any unrun agent-specific or behavioral verification honestly.

Portable skill rules

  • Use only the shared Agent Skills frontmatter fields unless a runtime-specific field is clearly optional and isolated.
  • Keep portable SKILL.md frontmatter to name and description; place Codex UI metadata in the optional agents/openai.yaml file.
  • Keep installation and activation compatible with the shared Agent Skills format across supported runtimes.
  • Keep descriptions specific enough for implicit activation and include concrete trigger words.
  • Reference supporting files with paths relative to the skill directory.
  • Keep skill behavior in natural-language instructions, references, examples, and reusable Markdown assets.
  • Protect secrets, tokens, personal data, and runtime state from repository content.

Architecture content rules

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +39 tokens per session 8c6cedcde40f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 1,251 tokens per session scan A b24c521fbdd0

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arcforge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository d4rkNinja/arcforge (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,290 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 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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