aifmt AGENTS.md

Project instructions for aifmt, an MCP server and Copilot CLI plugin that fixes and generates visual text such as diagrams, tables, and tree drawings. They also explain that a human must inspect the rendered result because an AI cannot verify its appearance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing aifmt, writing tests for visual output, or deciding how rendered diagrams and tables must be checked.
Why use it?
They clarify how to develop the project while preventing unverified claims that text-based visuals look correct.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/ericchansen/aifmt/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericchansen/aifmt

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,153 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,153 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01153 $0.01153
Opus 5 $0.00576 $0.00576
Sonnet 5 $0.00231 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00115 $0.00115

Measured yesterday against content hash 6bdaca2cf8ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aifmt 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 yesterday.

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.

AGENTS.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

aifmt Agent Instructions

What is this project?

aifmt is an MCP server + Copilot CLI plugin that makes visual text content "just work" in AI coding assistants. It fixes, validates, and generates diagrams, tables, box-drawing art, and tree diagrams.

⚠️ CRITICAL: You Cannot Verify Rendering — Humans Must

This is the single most important rule for working on this project.

You (the AI) cannot see how text renders on GitHub, in terminals, or in any visual context. You can read source code and count characters, but you cannot verify that a box, table, or tree diagram actually looks correct when rendered.

Every visual output claim must be verified by a human looking at the rendered result. This means:

  1. Never say "this looks correct" or "this is fixed" — you don't know that. Say "this is what the fixer produces — please verify on GitHub."
  2. Never hand-write visual content (boxes, tables, trees) and claim it's correct. Always generate it by running the actual fixer code, then ask the human to verify.
  3. When writing tests, the expected output for visual content should be human-verified, not assumed. Use # FIXME: human-verify comments for unverified expected values.
  4. When fixing a visual bug, push to GitHub and ask the user to check the rendered result. A passing test does NOT mean the output renders correctly — the test might be checking the wrong thing.
  5. The fixer's math can be wrong even when tests pass. We discovered that emoji = 2.5 cols on GitHub (not 2.0) only because a human looked at screenshots. No amount of unit testing would have caught that.

The Development Loop

You write code → You run tests → Tests pass → You push →
Human checks rendered output → Human reports what's wrong →
You fix → repeat

Do NOT skip the human verification step. Do NOT claim work is done until the human confirms the rendered output is correct.

Key Discovery: GitHub Emoji = 2.5 Columns

Through empirical testing (human screenshots), we discovered:

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 104 lines · 1,153 tokens per session scan A 6bdaca2cf8ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aifmt AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ericchansen/aifmt (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,153 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 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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