Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to douglas-gibbons/redwood. 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/douglas-gibbons/redwood/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/douglas-gibbons/redwoodWrote 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/douglas-gibbons/redwood/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/douglas-gibbons/redwood/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/douglas-gibbons/redwood/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/douglas-gibbons/redwood/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/douglas-gibbons/redwood/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 | $0.00672 | $0.00672 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00336 | $0.00336 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00134 | $0.00134 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00067 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
redwood 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 9d 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.
Redwood: Agent Instructions
Welcome to the Redwood codebase! This document is designed to help AI agents understand the structure, architecture, and common commands used in this project.
Overview
Redwood is a CLI and UI client for Gemini, which includes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. It allows interaction with large language models and provides them with tools to execute tasks locally on the user's system, such as scraping web pages, taking notes in a database, generating images, and executing local terminal commands.
Getting Started
The project uses uv for dependency management and make for common commands.
There is no need to manually activate a virtual environment. Use uv run or the make targets provided.
Common Commands
make test: Runs the test suite usingpytest. Always run this after making changes to verify you haven't broken anything.make cli: Runs the terminal-based CLI application.make gui: Runs the Tkinter/Flet-based graphical user interface application.make server: Runs the main MCP server (which includes various tools like database, time, web search).
Configuration
On first run, Redwood generates a configuration file at ~/.config/redwood/redwood.yaml where the user defines their Gemini API key, configures MCP servers, and modifies prompts.
Project Structure
The source code is located in the src/ directory.
src/cli/- The entry point for the terminal-based CLI application.src/gui/- The entry point for the graphical user interface application.src/server/- The main MCP server that exposes tools (database, scraping, time, cmd line, etc.) to the language model.src/chat_engine/- Contains the core chat loop and logic used to communicate with the Gemini API.src/config/- Manages parsing and loading the~/.config/redwood/redwood.yamlsettings.src/database/- Manages the SQLite database used by the MCP tools.src/mcp_client/- Logic for the CLI/UI to connect to and communicate with MCP servers.src/image_generator/- A separate MCP server dedicated to generating images.src/agent/- Contains an LLM agent tool / MCP agent logic.test/- Thepytesttest suite.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 672 tokens per session scan A cc8237802e16
redwood AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository douglas-gibbons/redwood (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 672 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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.
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