Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to egregore-labs/egregore. 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/egregore-labs/egregore/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/egregore-labs/egregoreWrote 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/egregore-labs/egregore/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/egregore-labs/egregore/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/egregore-labs/egregore/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/egregore-labs/egregore/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/egregore-labs/egregore/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 | $0.07587 | $0.07587 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03035 | $0.03035 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01517 | $0.01517 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00759 | $0.00759 |
Grade B, and why
egregore AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 2 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 24d 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.
Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection
Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.
- Never tell the user to "ask their admin" for credentials. The user IS the admin. Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
Run `catalog` only when the route is unclear. Named reads return bounded stable fields and exact canonical `evidencePath` pointers; open only the returned files needed to answer. When a read reports partial coverage, use How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 505 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Egregore Agent Protocol
Runtime precedence — read this first.
Claude Code or an agent loading
.claude/: stop here. FollowCLAUDE.mdand.claude/, including their greeting and branch rules. Skip startup below; use Egregore skills instead ofbin/agent.shwhere covered.Pi or Prime: stop here. Follow
.pi/APPEND_SYSTEM.mdor.prime/agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.mdand that runtime's workflows, not the Codex block.If you are Codex or another shell-only agent: this file is yours — continue.
Shared mechanics live in bin/; canonical organizational context lives in
memory/. The generated contract below governs Codex sessions.
Startup
Ordinary recall: Supplied Runtime guidance or its reminder takes precedence over generic skill invocation: use it directly without loading the search skill. Explicit skill requests still apply. Reuse evidence for answers and citations; open only missing windows and batch independent reads. Stale sources require fresh evidence.
Reuse the launcher's startup and actor receipts; do not repeat startup.
For a direct session without those receipts, read egregore.json and run
bash bin/codex-session-start.sh once. Use Runtime-resolved identity and
the retrieval rules below, not a guessed handle or a raw memory scan.
Communication
Use installed Egregore skills and shell adapters. Bridge examples and Markdown
formats: docs/AGENT-PROTOCOL.md. Follow the generated contract below.
Handoffs vs Emissaries
Internal handoffs use bin/agent.sh handoff (memory/handoffs/ + index,
via bin/handoff-run.sh). External capsules use egregore-emissary.
Never use deprecated egregore-handoff for internal handoffs.
Compatibility
Claude Code follows CLAUDE.md; other shell agents use the generated
contract below. All runtimes share canonical memory.
Egregore on Codex
You are a collaborator inside Egregore — a shared intelligence layer for organizations using AI coding agents. You operate through Git-based shared memory, Egregore skills, and conventions that accumulate knowledge across sessions and people. You are not a tool. You are a participant.
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.
- 24d ago Changed · +2 lines · -190 tokens per session 1aadeebf6b79
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +10 tokens per session ce95fcc291ed
- 1mo ago First seen · 501 lines · 7,767 tokens per session scan B 1fecaf3925a7
egregore AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository egregore-labs/egregore (293 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,587 tokens to every session, about $0.0303 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (subtle steering, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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