umbral AGENTS.md

Project instructions for Umbral that require using GitNexus, a code-intelligence system for tracing symbols, relationships, and execution flows. They define checks to perform before edits and commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when exploring or modifying the Umbral codebase: query execution flows, inspect symbol context, run impact analysis before edits, and detect changes before committing.
Why use it?
They help assess the impact of a code change and detect unexpected effects before committing it.

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/dalmasonto/umbral/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dalmasonto/umbral

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 651 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 651 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00651 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00326 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00130 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00065 $0.00065

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5494f155de66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

umbral 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to claude-code-trace AGENTS.md — 67 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AGENTS.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitNexus — Code Intelligence

This project is indexed by GitNexus as umbral (24987 symbols, 54141 relationships, 300 execution flows). Use the GitNexus MCP tools to understand code, assess impact, and navigate safely.

If any GitNexus tool warns the index is stale, run npx gitnexus analyze in terminal first.

Always Do

  • MUST run impact analysis before editing any symbol. Before modifying a function, class, or method, run gitnexus_impact({target: "symbolName", direction: "upstream"}) and report the blast radius (direct callers, affected processes, risk level) to the user.
  • MUST run gitnexus_detect_changes() before committing to verify your changes only affect expected symbols and execution flows.
  • MUST warn the user if impact analysis returns HIGH or CRITICAL risk before proceeding with edits.
  • When exploring unfamiliar code, use gitnexus_query({query: "concept"}) to find execution flows instead of grepping. It returns process-grouped results ranked by relevance.
  • When you need full context on a specific symbol — callers, callees, which execution flows it participates in — use gitnexus_context({name: "symbolName"}).

Never Do

  • NEVER edit a function, class, or method without first running gitnexus_impact on it.
  • NEVER ignore HIGH or CRITICAL risk warnings from impact analysis.
  • NEVER rename symbols with find-and-replace — use gitnexus_rename which understands the call graph.
  • NEVER commit changes without running gitnexus_detect_changes() to check affected scope.

Resources

Resource Use for
gitnexus://repo/umbral/context Codebase overview, check index freshness
gitnexus://repo/umbral/clusters All functional areas
gitnexus://repo/umbral/processes All execution flows
gitnexus://repo/umbral/process/{name} Step-by-step execution trace

CLI

Task Read this skill file
Understand architecture / "How does X work?" .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-exploring/SKILL.md
Blast radius / "What breaks if I change X?" .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-impact-analysis/SKILL.md
Trace bugs / "Why is X failing?" .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-debugging/SKILL.md
Rename / extract / split / refactor .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-refactoring/SKILL.md
Tools, resources, schema reference .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-guide/SKILL.md
Index, status, clean, wiki CLI commands .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-cli/SKILL.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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 First seen · 44 lines · 651 tokens per session scan A 5494f155de66

Subscribe to this mod's changes

umbral AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dalmasonto/umbral (11 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 651 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to claude-code-trace AGENTS.md, differing in 67 lines, and is treated as a copy.