cortex AGENTS.md

A set of project instructions for Cortex, a Rust service that collects logs from home servers and applications, stores them, and supports search and AI transcript matching. AGENTS.md is a file that tells coding agents how to work in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Cortex features involving log collection, Docker or syslog input, OpenTelemetry data, SQLite search, or transcript correlation.
Why use it?
It gives an agent project-specific guidance for changing the Cortex codebase without having to rediscover its purpose and conventions.

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/dinglebear-ai/cortex/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/cortex

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 4 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00004 $0.00004
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00000

Measured yesterday against content hash 6ebdb617a810, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortex 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 · 1 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 1 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 6ebdb617a810

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortex AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/cortex (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 4 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.