Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Fmarzochi/EGC. 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/Fmarzochi/EGC/main/.kiro/steering/patterns.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fmarzochi/EGCWrote 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/fmarzochi/egc/patterns)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/fmarzochi/egc/patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/fmarzochi/egc/patterns/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/fmarzochi/egc/patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/fmarzochi/egc/patterns.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 | $0.00228 | $0.00228 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00091 | $0.00091 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00046 | $0.00046 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00023 |
Grade A, and why
EGC patterns.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.
This is a copy
92% identical to patterns — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Common Patterns
Skeleton Projects
When implementing new functionality:
- Search for battle-tested skeleton projects
- Use parallel agents to evaluate options:
- Security assessment
- Extensibility analysis
- Relevance scoring
- Implementation planning
- Clone best match as foundation
- Iterate within proven structure
Design Patterns
Repository Pattern
Encapsulate data access behind a consistent interface:
- Define standard operations: findAll, findById, create, update, delete
- Concrete implementations handle storage details (database, API, file, etc.)
- Business logic depends on the abstract interface, not the storage mechanism
- Enables easy swapping of data sources and simplifies testing with mocks
API Response Format
Use a consistent envelope for all API responses:
- Include a success/status indicator
- Include the data payload (nullable on error)
- Include an error message field (nullable on success)
- Include metadata for paginated responses (total, page, limit)
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 First seen · 37 lines · 228 tokens per session scan A 874d8900ef97
EGC patterns.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Fmarzochi/EGC (67 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 228 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to patterns, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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