Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to getappz/agentflare. 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/getappz/agentflare/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getappz/agentflareWrote 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/getappz/agentflare/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/getappz/agentflare/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/getappz/agentflare/agents-md/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/getappz/agentflare/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/getappz/agentflare/agents-md.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 | $0.02880 | $0.02880 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01152 | $0.01152 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00576 | $0.00576 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00288 | $0.00288 |
Grade A, and why
agentflare 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 19d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
agentflare rules
Static fallback for agents with no MCP support and no hook mechanism (e.g. Aider).
Everything else (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code/Copilot, Cline,
Continue) gets a real integration via the agentflare CLI — see
https://github.com/getappz/agentflare. Use this file only if your tool isn't
one of those.
Flare optimize module
agentflare ships a single consolidated compression/optimization module (optimize)
with four layers:
| Layer | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| output | agentflare optimize output |
LLM-based prose compression (was caveman) |
| code | agentflare optimize code |
Lazy senior dev code minimalism (was ponytail) |
| context | agentflare optimize context |
On-demand BM25 relevance scoring over a session transcript (score); the PreCompact hook is inert |
| runtime | (automatic via hooks) | Session hygiene, model routing nudges |
agentflare flare / agentflare opt still work as backward-compatible aliases for
agentflare optimize. caveman/ponytail are not live command aliases — only
legacy ~/.config/{caveman,ponytail}/ cleanup on uninstall.
agentflare optimize retrieve <id> (and MCP mcp__flare__optimize action=retrieve) recovers an original that the output layer compressed away
(CCR pattern). lean-ctx-compressed reads are instead recovered via
ctx_read mode=raw — agentflare does not re-cache them, because lean-ctx is
a separate sidecar not in agentflare's read path.
Context compression — lean-ctx
MANDATORY for code intelligence — do NOT use native Grep / Read-on-full-file /
shell cat/grep/rg/find to search or read code. Route ALL of it through
lean-ctx instead. lean-ctx is in shadow mode: native file/search/shell calls
auto-route to ctx_* — but the rule below is the contract so agents without
shadow routing (Aider, plain shells) still comply.
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.
- 19d ago Changed · +11 lines · +166 tokens per session fefb0bc23703
- 23d ago Changed · +34 lines · +597 tokens per session 80621171ef8e
- 24d ago Changed · +25 lines · +437 tokens per session 83463d0dd352
- 1mo ago Changed · +15 tokens per session 4d0c456df848
- 1mo ago Changed · +25 lines · +259 tokens per session d477979fc368
- 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines · +248 tokens per session 6f737ebe9fd6
- 2mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 1,158 tokens per session scan A c3cdb09b0330
agentflare AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository getappz/agentflare (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,880 tokens to every session, about $0.0115 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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