Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible. 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/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bibleWrote 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/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/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/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible/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 | $0.01205 | $0.01205 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00482 | $0.00482 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00241 | $0.00241 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00120 | $0.00120 |
Grade A, and why
vibe-engineering-bible 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions for agents editing the "Vibe Engineering Bible" repo. File map — README.md; terms — the glossary, §10 of the bible.
Language and style
- Write and respond in English. Commits follow Conventional Commits. The main product is Markdown; the skill packager uses Python 3.9+ and the standard library. Check it with
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v. Text edits need no build; do not suggestnpm,pytest,make. - When editing text, follow the principles of §8 of the bible: only the non-obvious, imperative, verifiable specifics; a line that can be removed without losing meaning gets removed.
- One thought — one place: the canon states the norm, the mechanism lives in the process layer (
usage.md,playbooks/,templates/); link instead of repeating. - The sacral register (covenants, commandments, sins) is mnemonic, not ideology. The counts "two covenants / eight commandments / thirteen sins" are the same in all files.
You edit X → check Y
| You edit | Check |
|---|---|
| A §4 commandment | the template: I → §4.5; IV → §2, §3.1; V → §4.2, §3.2; VI → §4.1; VII → §4.3–§4.5; VIII → §5 |
| Paved road (Commandment IV) | §2 of the template holds only placeholders; the concrete list belongs to the adopter |
| Levels, "+ customers", autonomy (§2–§3) | §1, §3.1 (auto-merge), and §5 of the template; Prototype is not described in the template |
| A §5 DoD row | §6 of the template (only what is not in its §3–§5), deterministic gates in §3.1; classes D / P / H — playbooks, templates/audit-report.md |
| The §6 loop | §5 of the template, §7 items 8 and 10, templates/intent.md, playbooks/review-pr.md |
| The §7 checklist | playbooks/review-pr.md, templates/REVIEW.md |
| §8 (context files, skills) | header, §3, and §8 of the template; usage.md §6 |
| A §4½ sin | "Sins here" in the §4 commandment, the §10 glossary, consequences in §7 of the template, review-pr.md, audit-project.md, audit-report.md; every sin has a root in §4/§5/§7; a new sin — the "thirteen" count everywhere (intro, §4½, glossary, Appendix E, coda, README, this file) |
| §9 (metrics, ownership) | usage.md §1 (roles) |
| A figure or CVE in any file | the source in Appendix D (label [independent] / [vendor] / [self-report]) |
| Appendix E | patterns.md, registry.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, core change log in Appendix E |
| Appendix F | usage.md (modes table), playbooks/, templates/audit-report.md, registry.md: modes, check classes, consequences |
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.
- 6d ago Changed · +37 tokens per session d5ed55766547
- 25d ago First seen · 44 lines · 1,168 tokens per session scan A 0f1bbf164d3d
vibe-engineering-bible AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dobertank/vibe-engineering-bible (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,205 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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 2026-10-13.
vibe-engineering-bible AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vibe-engineering-bible AGENTS.mddobertank/vibe-engineering-bible | Instructions file | 5 | 3d ago | MIT | A | 1,205 | Codex, OpenCode |
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| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |