What is roundtable AGENTS.md?

Instructions for Roundtable, a command-line tool and MCP server that asks several AI models for independent answers and can have them discuss a question until they reach agreement.

Installing Roundtable, configuring its model connections, asking for advice from several models, and running a chaired discussion toward consensus.

It provides multiple AI viewpoints for decisions instead of depending on one model's answer. Its research mode can help when an answer needs current facts from the web.

How frontier-infra/roundtable configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to frontier-infra/roundtable. 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/frontier-infra/roundtable/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frontier-infra/roundtable

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,271 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,271 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review

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	$0.01271	$0.01271
Opus 5.5	$0.00508	$0.00508
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00254	$0.00254
Haiku 4.5	$0.00127	$0.00127

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e1684f7ca053, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roundtable 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 2mo 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 · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Roundtable

A guide for coding agents (and the humans wiring them up). Roundtable is a CLI + MCP server that convenes a council of frontier models on a question and, optionally, runs a chaired deliberation to consensus. It's a Frontier Infra project — we eat our own cooking: our own agents call Roundtable before the decisions that matter.

What it is

One command, several model "heads", run in parallel:

Advisory (default) — every configured head answers once, blind to the others.
Deliberation (--rounds N) — heads read each other and revise; a Claude chair declares CONSENSUS / CONTINUE and the run stops early on consensus.
Research (--research) — web on, multi-step, for answers that need current facts.

Heads: grok · codex · openai · glm · minimax · claude · gemini. A head with no key/CLI is skipped inline — the council runs on whatever subset is configured (so it works on API keys alone, no local CLIs required).

Install

# Canonical one-liner
curl -fsSL https://roundtable.sh/install.sh | bash

# Or pip / uv (thin launcher around the same engine)
pip install roundtable
uv tool install roundtable

# Or Homebrew
brew install frontier-infra/tap/roundtable

# Or from a clone
git clone https://github.com/frontier-infra/roundtable && cd roundtable && ./install.sh --from .

The installer drops the engine under ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/roundtable and symlinks roundtable into ~/.local/bin. If that's not on your PATH, the installer prints the exact export PATH=... line to add.

Configure keys

roundtable auth                 # interactive: masked paste per provider, shows ✓/✗
roundtable auth anthropic       # configure just one provider
roundtable doctor               # which heads are configured + a reachability ping

Keys live in ~/.config/roundtable/config.env (dotenv, chmod 600, sourced — no parser). You can also write it directly:

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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.

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roundtable AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository frontier-infra/roundtable (0 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,271 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 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 2026-08-31.

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