dory AGENTS.md

A set of instructions for working in the Dory code repository, a local-first memory system for coding agents that stores Markdown and uses SQLite as a search index.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying Dory code, tests, documentation, integrations, or generated files, especially when deciding where a change belongs.
Why use it?
It helps keep private information out of the public repository and guides changes toward the project's existing structure.

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,205 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,205 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01205 $0.01205
Opus 5 $0.00602 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00241 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00120 $0.00120

Measured yesterday against content hash a7f9f836564c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dory 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 yesterday.

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 · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Guide

This is the public Dory repository. Dory is a local-first memory daemon for agents: markdown is the source of truth, SQLite is the disposable index sidecar, and clients talk to it through CLI, HTTP, MCP, Hermes, and OpenClaw integrations.

First Principles

  • Keep the public tree clean. Never add private corpus files, real personal memories, direct contact details, private hostnames, tokens, or local absolute paths.
  • Use synthetic examples in tests, docs, fixtures, and evals. Do not use real user biography, finance, health, private life events, or private relationship details as fixtures.
  • Prefer the smallest correct diff. Avoid broad refactors unless the task explicitly calls for them.
  • Do not invent new framework layers when the existing src/dory_core, src/dory_http, src/dory_mcp, src/dory_cli, plugins/, and packages/ boundaries already fit.
  • Keep generated artifacts intentional. packages/openclaw-dory/dist/index.js is tracked because OpenClaw loads it; most other build output is not.

Repository Map

  • src/dory_core/ - memory model, search, wake, active memory, semantic writes, indexing, operations.
  • src/dory_http/ - FastAPI daemon and HTTP contract.
  • src/dory_mcp/ - native MCP server and tool schemas.
  • src/dory_cli/ - Typer CLI.
  • plugins/hermes-dory/ - Hermes provider.
  • packages/openclaw-dory/ - OpenClaw memory plugin package. Rebuild dist/index.js after TypeScript changes.
  • docs/, references/, eval/, examples/ - public documentation, runbooks, public evals, and safe sample corpus material.
  • scripts/release/check-public-safety.py - public leak guard for obvious secrets, private paths, and configured private terms.

Dory Memory Policy

Use Dory as the shared memory layer for agent work in this repo.

  1. At a new session start, after context compaction, or when switching to a genuinely new task, call wake with the right profile. Do not rerun wake on every user turn while the current wake block is still in context.
  2. Before making factual claims about memory, projects, people, priorities, decisions, or current environment, use Dory first.
  3. Preferred read flow: wake, then search, then exact get, then link only when graph context is useful.
  4. Cite exact Dory source paths when an answer depends on Dory memory.
  5. If evidence is weak, stale, private, or conflicting, say that directly instead of guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 1,205 tokens per session scan A a7f9f836564c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dory AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository deeflect/dory (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,205 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 per session on Opus 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.