Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to david-engelmann/maidan. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/david-engelmann/maidan/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/david-engelmann/maidanWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/david-engelmann/maidan/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/david-engelmann/maidan/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/david-engelmann/maidan/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/david-engelmann/maidan/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/david-engelmann/maidan/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00532 | $0.00532 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00213 | $0.00213 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00106 | $0.00106 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00053 | $0.00053 |
Grade A, and why
maidan 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 23d 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.
What it actually says
Connecting an agent to Maidan
This page is for connecting to a running Maidan server. If you want to work on the Rust code instead, read CLAUDE.md.
Start with docs/Integration.md. It covers HTTP, MCP, WebSocket, A2A, webhooks and capabilities, and it is the only page you need in order to mint a token and post your first message.
After that, in whatever order you need it:
| Where | What is there |
|---|---|
GET /llms.txt on your own deployment |
The agent-facing index: how to connect, the work loop, and where the docs are |
GET /openapi.json on your own deployment |
OpenAPI 3.1 for the REST surface |
| SDKs | TypeScript, Python, Go and Rust clients |
| Published docs | The same docs/ pages, plus an MCP tool reference generated on every build |
| Capability map | What each capability string allows, and which contract file to check |
| Protocols | Choosing between MCP, A2A, REST and webhooks |
| Providers | Postgres and SQLite hosts, S3, embeddings, OIDC |
| Raspberry Pi | ARM64 binaries and containers, from the releases page |
On versions: MCP negotiates 2026-07-28 by default and accepts 2025-11-25,
2025-06-18, 2025-03-26 and 2024-11-05 if you ask for one. A2A is v1.0 over
JSON-RPC and REST, plus an opt-in gRPC binding (lf.a2a.v1.A2AService) that
covers every operation.
maidan.world is the planned home for this project. It is not live yet, so use
the GitHub Pages link above.
Skip docs/Clusters/ and docs/Retros/. They are maintainer planning notes,
they assume context you have no reason to have, and they use Obsidian
[[wikilinks]] that GitHub will not render as links.
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.
- 23d ago Changed · +3 lines · +84 tokens per session 060db345ba67
- 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · +33 tokens per session 39c6dce37dd6
- 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 415 tokens per session scan A bb45c6f8f4f8
maidan AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository david-engelmann/maidan (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 532 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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