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AGENTS.md

arena AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from dravensoft-dev/arena. It costs 5,837 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for contributors changing Arena, Dravensoft's design system—the shared rules and component libraries used to build interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying Arena itself, including its design tokens, React or Angular libraries, or shared Tailwind layer.
Why use it?
It helps developers find where a decision belongs and which documentation or code to read for a given change.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is dravensoft-dev/arena's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on arena itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything arena configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dravensoft-dev/arena. 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/dravensoft-dev/arena/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dravensoft-dev/arena

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Grade A, and why

arena 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 4d ago.

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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 · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arena, for whoever changes it

Arena is Dravensoft's design system: a token layer, React and Angular component libraries built on it, and a shared Tailwind layer. The repository itself is not an npm package, and its root package.json is dev-only and private; what npm gets is two packages assembled from this tree.

This file routes. Read only what your task needs.

Which job is this?

Building something with Arena (a screen, a prototype, a skin, an integration): read skills/design/SKILL.md instead. It is the root of that branch and this file is not, and the two are almost disjoint by design.

Changing Arena itself: stay here. Everything below is reached through this page.

Where each decision goes

Most rows below are indexed by what you are changing. The first two are not, because a reader arriving with a symptom does not know yet what they are changing, and that is the state no other row answers.

I am here because Start at
something renders or behaves wrong and I do not know which layer owns it contracts/behaviour/AGENTS.md when it is a role, a key, focus or dismissal, whose last section is why a defect outlives a green run; otherwise the layer, through frameworks/AGENTS.md
I do not know whether Arena already has the thing I am about to add frameworks/INDEX.md, one line per component and which layers ship it. It belongs to the other branch and it is still the only page that answers this, so read that one line and come back; its own pointers are a builder's and not yours
a value: a colour, a spacing step, a duration, a delay contracts/design/AGENTS.md, and TokenTypes.md for the shape it is authored in
what a kind of component must DO: roles, keys, focus, dismissal contracts/behaviour/AGENTS.md
what a component PRESENTS: its members contracts/api/AGENTS.md
which of those three a fact belongs to contracts/AGENTS.md, the roof
a component, in one layer or both frameworks/AGENTS.md, then that layer's own
how a component LOOKS frameworks/tailwind/AGENTS.md
a style decision an adopter makes on an instance or a region: a family, a channel, a boundary contracts/AGENTS.md, its section on who decides how a component looks, then frameworks/tailwind/AGENTS.md
what a consumer may build Arena INTO: an import, a peer, a browser global, a server render frameworks/AGENTS.md, the envelope section, then the layer you are editing. check:architecture fails a withdrawal
a playground's seed frameworks/demos/AGENTS.md
a script, a gate, a generator scripts/AGENTS.md
a browsable page or a specimen intro/AGENTS.md
the identity document a project fills in before its first screen arena-from-scratch/AGENTS.md
a style plugin Arena renders, or an entry a project starts from plugin-style-store/AGENTS.md, and catalogue/ beside it
a release, in the order the moves are made versioning_steps.md, and nothing else until it sends you there
the npm channel: what a package is, what CI does with it frameworks/PACKAGING.md and .github/workflows/AGENTS.md
documentation this page, the two sections below it
I am about to write down that something is wrong DOUBTS.md, which says what counts as a debt and which records beat a paragraph. It is not where a bug report starts; that is the first row

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 lines

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arena AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dravensoft-dev/arena (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,837 tokens to every session, about $0.0233 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 2026-08-31.

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