agent-callable AGENTS.md

Development instructions for agent-callable, a tool that blocks potentially risky commands unless they have been explicitly allowed.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding code changes and reviews of the filter, including command approval rules, direct execution without a shell, non-interactive behavior, and clear blocked-command messages.
Why use it?
They help developers keep the command filter cautious and reduce accidental actions such as pushing code, opening pull requests, or destroying data. The filter is not a complete security boundary.

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/evaneos/agent-callable/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Evaneos/agent-callable

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,122 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,122 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 $0.01122 $0.01122
Opus 5 $0.00561 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00224 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00112 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash 83fafa199c20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-callable 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 2d 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.

AGENTS.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev directives for agent-callable

CLAUDE.md is a symlink to AGENTS.md.

This file contains directives for developing and maintaining agent-callable. For a runtime usage example in another project, see SAMPLE_CLAUDE.md.

Tool purpose (context for design decisions)

  • agent-callable is a deny-by-default command filter designed to be pre-approvable in an LLM agent's allowlist.
  • Goal: reduce the surface of accidental side effects from an agent (push/PR/apply/destroy/etc.).
  • This is a best-effort filter, not a security boundary. It offers no guarantee against intentional or creative bypass.

Policy principles (to follow in code)

  • Deny-by-default: any new subcommand/flag starts blocked until explicitly classified as "OK".
  • Prefer false positives (blocking too much) over false negatives (letting dangerous things through).
  • No shell: never evaluate shell; execute the binary directly (reduces injection risk).
  • Non-interactive:
    • neutralize stdin if TTY when relevant,
    • disable prompts (e.g. GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0, GH_PROMPT_DISABLED=1),
    • avoid/neutralize pagers (e.g. PAGER=cat when useful).
  • LLM-friendly messages: on block, return a short and actionable error (without requesting input).
  • Secrets: block modes/flags that exfiltrate secrets (e.g. kubectl get secrets -o yaml/json, pulumi --show-secrets).
  • Persistent changes: block commands that durably modify config (e.g. helm repo add, gcloud config set) unless explicitly decided.
  • Remote effects: block remote/destructive operations (push, PR create/merge, apply/destroy, etc.).
  • Local "cache/artifact" writes: usually OK if useful for investigation (e.g. git fetch, docker pull, gh repo clone), as long as it doesn't durably reconfigure the tool.

Before writing or reviewing a tool filter

  • Read the tool's official docs/--help output to know all flags, subcommands, and aliases. Don't rely on memory — CLIs have flags you don't expect.
  • Keep the security model in mind: README.md § "What gets filtered" defines the three categories (remote effect / persistent config / local cache). Every decision must map to one.
  • Don't forget universally harmless patterns: --version, --help, noop/dry-run flags. These are safe for any tool.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 1,122 tokens per session scan A 83fafa199c20

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agent-callable AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Evaneos/agent-callable (5 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,122 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 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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