What is nobu AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for nobu, a game-agnostic MCP server for composing chiptune and retro MIDI and rendering game audio. They define required setup actions, project paths, and rendering behavior.

Running the bootstrap script, integrating nobu with a game project, using its asset and output folders, and producing audio in the required render modes.

They give coding agents a consistent procedure for setting up the repository and handling its generated files.

How francescojr/nobu configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to francescojr/nobu. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/francescojr/nobu/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/francescojr/nobu

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 2,081 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,081 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02081	$0.02081
Opus 5.5	$0.00832	$0.00832
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00416	$0.00416
Haiku 4.5	$0.00208	$0.00208

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9e2955f4d885, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nobu 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.

AGENTS.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — nobu

Instructions for coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Kilo Code, etc.). Humans: see README.md. Setup detail: .claude/skills/game-music-producer/SETUP.md.

If this workspace was just cloned: run bootstrap immediately. Do not ask.

Mission

nobu is a game-agnostic MCP server + skill for composing chiptune/retro MIDI and rendering game audio. It ships no game-specific data.

First actions after clone (mandatory, automatic)

Trigger this checklist when: the user says install/setup/use nobu, the repo was just cloned, imports fail, or MCP tools are missing. Do not ask for confirmation.

Bootstrap (from repo root):
```
python scripts/bootstrap.py --no-prompt
```
Humans may run python scripts/bootstrap.py without flags for an interactive optional-upgrade menu.

This creates .venv, installs deps, ensures folders, verifies imports, and rewrites project-local .cursor/mcp.json + .mcp.json (Cursor) and .kilo/kilo.jsonc (Kilo) with the venv Python + absolute nobu_mcp.py (all gitignored; templates *.example* stay in git).

Integrate into a game project:
```
python scripts/bootstrap.py --integrate /absolute/path/to/game --no-prompt
```
Machine-readable status:
```
python scripts/bootstrap.py --json --no-prompt
```
Optional flags:
```
python scripts/bootstrap.py --with-render --no-prompt   # tinysoundfont (hybrid)
python scripts/bootstrap.py --doctor                   # re-check deps, no pip/menu
python scripts/bootstrap.py --smoke --no-prompt        # end-to-end chip render proof
```
Kilo: bootstrap writes "timeout": 300000 in .kilo/kilo.jsonc. Also set Settings → MCP → nobu → Network Timeout → 5 minutes if render fails with -32001. Prefer MCP render_chip for first audio; use shell fallback:
```
python scripts/render_track.py assets/midi/{project}.mid --mode chip --json
```

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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.

1mo ago First seen · 162 lines · 2,081 tokens per session scan A 9e2955f4d885

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nobu AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository francescojr/nobu (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,081 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 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 2026-09-01.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

AGENTS.md — nobu

Mission

First actions after clone (mandatory, automatic)

What this file has done since we first saw it

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