What is agents-rules-skills AGENTS.md?

A guide and collection for installing role-based coding agents, which are specialized assistants for particular development tasks. It explains setup for Claude Code and other coding tools.

Use it to install agents, choose project-wide or personal availability, and follow platform-specific setup instructions.

It helps place agent files in the right project or global folders instead of configuring each tool manually without knowing its conventions.

How Desquared/agents-rules-skills configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Desquared/agents-rules-skills. 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/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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.

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Per session 1,445 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,445 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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	$0.01445	$0.01445
Opus 5.5	$0.00578	$0.00578
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00289	$0.00289
Haiku 4.5	$0.00145	$0.00145

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f2f24ec3624b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-rules-skills AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md \

AGENTS.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agents Catalog

Agents are role-based Markdown files. Claude Code has first-class support for sub-agents today. Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot handle agents differently — see the per-tool notes below.

Quick Install

The interactive installer handles all IDE paths for you:

npx github:Desquared/agents-rules-skills install-agents

Pick your IDE(s), choose a scope (project or global), filter by platform, and the installer places files in the correct location — native agents folder for Claude Code, custom instructions for others.

Manual Install

How To Install An Agent

Claude Code

Claude Code loads agents from ~/.claude/agents/ (global) or .claude/agents/ (project-local). Each Markdown file becomes a sub-agent that Claude can automatically delegate to.

# Global (available in every project)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md \
  -o ~/.claude/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md

# Project-local (only available in this project)
mkdir -p .claude/agents
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md \
  -o .claude/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot supports project and global agent folders.

# Global (available in every project)
mkdir -p ~/.copilot/agents
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md \
  -o ~/.copilot/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md

# Project-local (only available in this project)
mkdir -p .github/agents
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills/main/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md \
  -o .github/agents/ios-security-reviewer.md

Cursor, Windsurf

These tools do not currently support a "drop a file = new sub-agent" pattern equivalent to Claude Code agents. Instead:

Cursor: Use the agent files as custom instructions or rules (see RULES.md). The content works just as well as detailed system-level guidance.
Windsurf: Paste the agent content into a Flow, or add it to a rule file (see RULES.md) for persistent context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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.

1mo ago First seen · 98 lines · 1,445 tokens per session scan A f2f24ec3624b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents-rules-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Desquared/agents-rules-skills (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,445 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Building agents

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

agents-rules-skills: Instructions file for Codex