What is awesome-agent-search AGENTS.md?

A repository guide file named AGENTS.md that tells coding agents how to work on a project, including its mission, allowed changes, reading order, and required checks.

Guiding work on an agent-search repository and requiring checks such as make check, make validate-registry, and make review before a commit.

It gives agents project-specific rules and helps prevent unsafe contributions such as secrets, private endpoints, or unsanitised local paths.

How DeeeFOX/awesome-agent-search configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DeeeFOX/awesome-agent-search. 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/DeeeFOX/awesome-agent-search/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeeeFOX/awesome-agent-search

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 435 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 435 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00435	$0.00435
Opus 5.5	$0.00174	$0.00174
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00087	$0.00087
Haiku 4.5	$0.00044	$0.00044

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fd689f1a2929, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

awesome-agent-search 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 · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Guide

Mission

Improve coding-agent search quality with public-safe, privacy-aware search integration practices.

SearXNG is a priority research path, not the only supported approach. Contributions may compare native agent search, MCP search adapters, self-hosted search, hosted search APIs, browser-based retrieval, and local documentation search.

Allowed Contributions

Agents may add or update:

documentation
best practices
examples
structured registry entries
validation scripts
workflows

Agents must not add:

secrets
tokens
cookies
session material
personal email addresses
private endpoints
local machine paths unless sanitized and strictly necessary

Required Checks Before Commit

Run:

make check
make validate-registry
make review

Language Rules

governance, process, and repository-maintenance text: modern English, concise
examples and best-practice guidance: modern English, concise
Chinese translations may live in README.zh-CN.md and docs/zh-CN/
English remains canonical when translations differ
avoid decorative prose

Submission Rules

Every substantial contribution should clarify:

problem
approach
expected benefit
privacy considerations
acceptance criteria

When adding a durable resource, also update registry/resources.json.

When changing registry/resources.json, run make generate-registry-index or make review so docs/registry-index.md stays current.

Use templates/research-report-template.md for research notes and templates/integration-template.md for new integration examples.

Issue vs Patch

Patch directly when the scope is local and validation is straightforward.

Prefer an issue first when the change:

needs design judgment
changes ecosystem-wide structure
introduces a new trust or privacy tradeoff
depends on external service behavior that is still under investigation

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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.

2mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 435 tokens per session scan A fd689f1a2929

Subscribe to this mod's changes

awesome-agent-search AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DeeeFOX/awesome-agent-search (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 435 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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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