Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions. 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/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/develop/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructionsWrote 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/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/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/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions/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 | $0.00904 | $0.00904 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00362 | $0.00362 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00181 | $0.00181 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00090 | $0.00090 |
Grade A, and why
ai-assistant-instructions 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 — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AI Agents Configuration
Coding behavior
Identity and posture: soul.md. Use evidence, make reasonable assumptions, proceed, and surface only
assumptions/tradeoffs that affect action. Ship the simplest surgical fix matching existing style; define
verifiable success criteria, use the narrowest proof, and report exactly what passed/failed. Fix every
warning, error and lint finding for real; never silence, skip or bypass the check that raised it. Deep
design/review/refactor work: karpathy-guidelines skill (andrej-karpathy-skills).
Tool choice — no new custom scripts (custom code is permanent maintenance). Before writing or extending one, stop at
the first rung that works: (1) existing flags, config, or an installed skill, command, plugin or MCP server; (2) a
native feature of the platform or tool; (3) a maintained third-party tool; (4) community content: Ansible
collections, Terraform modules, Renovate presets, pre-commit hooks, Actions; (5) prior art: /github-code-search
(thousands of hits means idiomatic, three means a mistake), context7, package/Terraform/Hugging Face registries; (6) a
formal gap: a standardized public repo that fits our use case. Only then write code, naming why each rung failed.
Delete or replace an existing script before editing it.
Git workflow: never edit on the default branch — /refresh-repo, then a new worktree. develop default branch →
git-flow: PRs target develop (squash-merge), develop → main by
merge commit only. Otherwise trunk flow. Always atomic commits, one fix/feature/section per commit. Load
the on-demand rule for the activity — rule-tiers.md is the index. Behavior changes to instructions are
feat:/fix:, never docs: (docs commits never release).
Knowledge base: documentation follows Open Knowledge Format — search before editing, capture new durable knowledge after a change.
Where things get written (routing law, no exceptions)
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 Changed · -3 lines · +52 tokens per session b883f3b98802
- 14d ago Changed · +9 lines · +138 tokens per session 6bc185b1ed73
- 15d ago Changed · +8 tokens per session dfe1a7c6b3f1
- 17d ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 8e3b55647c88
- 19d ago Changed · +2 lines · +41 tokens per session 73d43c81cde2
- 23d ago Changed · +2 lines · +49 tokens per session 1183e8db353a
- 24d ago Changed · +2 lines · +47 tokens per session e29bc122b62c
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 tokens per session 7180a5948ec3
- 1mo ago Changed · -46 lines · -424 tokens per session 24f04e946cc0
- 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 993 tokens per session scan A a01f59e3eb82
ai-assistant-instructions AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dryvist/ai-assistant-instructions (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 904 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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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