Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Endgame-Labs/goated. 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/Endgame-Labs/goated/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Endgame-Labs/goatedWrote 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/endgame-labs/goated/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/endgame-labs/goated/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/endgame-labs/goated/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/endgame-labs/goated/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/endgame-labs/goated/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 | $0.00534 | $0.00534 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00214 | $0.00214 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00107 | $0.00107 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00053 | $0.00053 |
Grade A, and why
goated 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 1mo 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 — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Developer guide for AI agents
For codebase architecture, project structure, and how the system works, see CODEBASE.md. For agent runtime instructions (responding to users, memory, identity), see workspace/AGENTS.md.
Building
All changes must be compatible with OS X/macOS and Ubuntu Linux. Account for platform differences in filesystems, process management, and shell utilities. Validate affected behavior on both platforms when possible, and state any platform that was not tested.
If this machine is missing Go or other prerequisites, run:
scripts/setup_machine.sh doctor
Always use build.sh — never go build directly.
./build.sh # builds both binaries
Two binaries are produced:
./goated— control CLI + daemon./workspace/goat— agent CLI (used by Claude inside workspace)
Running the daemon
./build_all_and_run_daemon.sh # builds everything, then starts daemon
Or if already built:
./goated daemon run # self-daemonizes, logs to logs/goated_daemon.log
The daemon self-backgrounds. No nohup & needed.
Restarting the daemon
Use the daemon management command — it waits for in-flight messages to flush:
./goated daemon restart --reason "deployed new build"
Verifying changes compile
gofmt -w . # format Go files before committing
go test ./... # automated tests
go vet ./... # static analysis check before committing
./build.sh # full build
Automated tests cover core behavior; use gateway messages for additional manual checks only against an explicitly selected running instance.
Machine setup
Goated expects:
- Go matching
go.mod tmux- one runtime CLI on
PATH:claudeorcodex
Useful commands:
scripts/setup_machine.sh doctor
scripts/setup_machine.sh install-system
scripts/setup_machine.sh install-go
Daemon watchdog
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · +57 tokens per session 6b025a418605
- 2mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 477 tokens per session scan A a415b89339e9
goated AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Endgame-Labs/goated (46 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 534 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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.
goated AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goated AGENTS.mdEndgame-Labs/goated | Instructions file | 46 | yesterday | MIT | A | 534 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |