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.
npx agentmods add instructions/ghchinoy/docstats/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ghchinoy/docstatsWhat 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 | $0.00916 | $0.00916 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00458 | $0.00458 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00183 | $0.00183 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00092 | $0.00092 |
Grade C, and why
docstats AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- headroom:rtk-instructions --> How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions
Issue Tracking
This project uses bd (beads) for issue tracking.
Run bd prime for workflow context, or install hooks (bd hooks install) for auto-injection.
Quick reference:
bd ready- Find unblocked workbd show <id>- View issue detailsbd create "Title" --type task --priority 2- Create issuebd update <id> --claim- Claim workbd close <id>- Complete workbd dolt push- Push beads to remote
For full workflow details: bd prime
Maintenance & Quality
Benchmarking with the Golden Set
When modifying extraction logic (extraction.py) or metric calculations (metrics.py), you must verify that you haven't introduced unintended "drift" in the scores:
- Run Baseline:
uv run python baseline_analysis.py - Verify: Compare the output against
samples/baseline_results.json. - Quality Goal: Use these samples to perform "Hill Climbing"—iteratively adjusting code or content to meet specific readability targets.
Landing the Plane (Session Completion)
When ending a work session, you MUST complete ALL steps below. Work is NOT complete until git push succeeds.
MANDATORY WORKFLOW:
- File issues for remaining work - Create issues for anything that needs follow-up
- Run quality gates (if code changed) - Tests, linters, builds
- Update issue status - Close finished work, update in-progress items
- PUSH TO REMOTE - This is MANDATORY:
git pull --rebase bd sync git push git status # MUST show "up to date with origin" - Clean up - Clear stashes, prune remote branches
- Verify - All changes committed AND pushed
- Hand off - Provide context for next session
CRITICAL RULES:
- Work is NOT complete until
git pushsucceeds - NEVER stop before pushing - that leaves work stranded locally
- NEVER say "ready to push when you are" - YOU must push
- If push fails, resolve and retry until it succeeds
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 916 tokens per session scan C 80c40d6c8b59
docstats AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ghchinoy/docstats (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 916 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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