Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dcramer/agents. 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/dcramer/agents/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcramer/agentsWrote 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/dcramer/agents/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dcramer/agents/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dcramer/agents/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/dcramer/agents/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dcramer/agents/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 | $0.00289 | $0.00289 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00116 | $0.00116 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00058 | $0.00058 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00029 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
agents 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.
What it actually says
Agent Instructions
Repository Shape
skills/contains reusable agent skills.- Each skill lives at
skills/<name>/. SKILL.mdcontains runtime instructions and must start with skill frontmatter.spec.mdcontains the Skillet behavior contract for migrated skills; legacy skills may retainSPEC.mduntil migrated.SOURCES.mdcontains provenance, decisions, gaps, and changelog entries.
External References
| Need | Reference |
|---|---|
| Repo purpose and installation entrypoint | README.md |
| Skill specification and validation CLI | Skillet |
Conventions
- Keep runtime skill guidance portable; use skill-root-relative paths.
- Add
references/,scripts/, orassets/under a skill only when they have a concrete runtime purpose. - Do not add hosting or deployment config, including
CNAME, unless explicitly requested. - Keep docs concise and actionable; prefer checklists and tables over prose.
Validation
- No repo package manager or standard test command is defined yet.
- For skill changes, run the relevant structural validator when available and report the exact command and result.
- For Skillet-managed skills, do not create or run eval cases by default. Add or run evals only when the user explicitly requests eval work or when the task specifically targets eval coverage.
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.
- 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +39 tokens per session 68dfd93ca86f
- 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A de219ab8c512
agents AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dcramer/agents (58 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 289 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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.
agents AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| agents AGENTS.mddcramer/agents | Instructions file | 58 | 24d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 289 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode ai-customization.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 1,907 | GitHub Copilot |