Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dwarvesf/dwarves-kit. 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/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwarvesf/dwarves-kitWrote 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/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/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/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/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 | $0.04930 | $0.04930 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01972 | $0.01972 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00986 | $0.00986 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00493 | $0.00493 |
Grade A, and why
dwarves-kit 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 12d 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 — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md: the operating layer
Tool-agnostic front door. Any agent runtime (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, a human) reads this first to learn how work is done in this repo. It carries the portable operate-contract: what to read, how to run a unit of work, when work is done, and when to stop and ask.
Enforcement boundary (read this first)
This file is a contract, not a guardrail. Enforcement is Claude-Code-only: the
hooks (safety-gate, push-to-main blocker, anti-rationalization Stop hook, the
verification pipeline) are what actually block bad outcomes, and they run only
under Claude Code. Under any other runtime (Codex, Gemini, a bare LLM)
AGENTS.md is advisory only: it tells an agent what to do, but nothing
enforces it. Do not assume the guardrails are portable. They are not, until the
v3.x multi-runtime agent-hook work lands. See docs/PHILOSOPHY.md (honesty rule:
never over-claim portable enforcement) and CLAUDE.md for the CC-specific layer
(hooks, slash commands, plugin). The full layering contract, which hook
backstops what and why (hard / advisory / convenience), is
docs/architecture.md "Hook fallback layer".
The rest of this file is four portable zones. The goal-crafter
(commands/assign.md) projects them into a six-section /goal (see "How a goal
is composed" at the end).
1. Read in this order
Orient before you touch anything. Read top to bottom; stop when you have enough.
- AGENTS.md (this file) - how work is done here; the operate-contract.
- CLAUDE.md - the Claude-Code layer: stack, structure, rules, hooks, commands, plugin.
- docs/specs/SPEC-NNN-.md - the active spec; the shared contract for the cycle. Read its
## Verificationand## After statebefore implementing. - docs/architecture.md / WORKFLOW.md / docs/data-flow.md - reference, not required per task. Read
docs/architecture.mdfor how the pieces fit;docs/data-flow.mdfor how DATA moves (the signal path telemetry -> proposal -> board, the ledger write/read paths, the module map); readWORKFLOW.mdfor the lanes and the gate at each phase boundary, and its "Mega-goal delegate execution" section for how a multi-sub-goal mega-goal run dispatches (delegate mode: one fresh headless session per sub-goal;/goalstays the official outer loop either way).
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.
- 12d ago Changed · +2 lines · +141 tokens per session 8ded15e8c3cb
- 13d ago Changed · +9 lines · +202 tokens per session 41fba1ebf764
- 16d ago Changed · +23 tokens per session 7bea3c36d770
- 28d ago Changed · +3 lines · +78 tokens per session 4e34dd114647
- 1mo ago Changed · +33 lines · +259 tokens per session c12621bf9306
- 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +127 tokens per session a342a4d33112
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +12 tokens per session 49f3f2cc2fa1
- 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 4,088 tokens per session scan A 15744d73916c
dwarves-kit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dwarvesf/dwarves-kit (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 4,930 tokens to every session, about $0.0197 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 2026-08-30.
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