What is stacklit AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for contributors and coding agents working on Stacklit, a Go command-line tool that indexes codebases and serves the result over MCP. They describe the project layout, build commands, tests, and development rules.

Use them when building, testing, or editing Stacklit itself, including its parser, dependency graph, command-line interface, MCP server, and setup code.

They give an agent the local conventions and verification steps needed to change the Stacklit repository without guessing where code belongs or how to test it.

How glincker/stacklit configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to glincker/stacklit. 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/glincker/stacklit/master/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glincker/stacklit

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md

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Per session 721 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 721 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	$0.00721	$0.00721
Opus 5.5	$0.00288	$0.00288
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00144	$0.00144
Haiku 4.5	$0.00072	$0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6a4a24a3ef11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stacklit 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 3d 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 · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guide for agents and people working on the Stacklit repo itself. If you only want to use Stacklit on your own project, read README.md and docs/INSTALL.md.

What this is

A Go CLI that indexes a codebase into stacklit.json (modules, exports, dependency edges, hints) plus a symbol graph, and serves it over MCP. Deterministic, no LLM, no network calls from the CLI. Module path github.com/glincker/stacklit, Go version from go.mod.

Build and test

make build                 # ./stacklit
go vet ./...
go test ./... -race -count=1
go build -o /tmp/stacklit ./cmd/stacklit   # try it on another repo

CI runs vet and tests on Linux, macOS and Windows. Node is only needed for npm/.

Where things live

Path	Holds
`cmd/stacklit`	main package
`internal/cli`	Cobra commands
`internal/parser`, `internal/graph`	extractors and the dependency and symbol graph
`internal/engine`, `internal/renderer`, `internal/schema`	pipeline, outputs, index types
`internal/mcp`	MCP server (stdio)
`internal/setup`	`stacklit setup` targets, hooks, the embedded skill
`skills/stacklit/SKILL.md`	the skill; `internal/setup/skill/SKILL.md` and `plugins/stacklit/skills/stacklit/SKILL.md` must match it
`plugins/stacklit`, `.claude-plugin/`	Claude Code plugin and marketplace
`server.json`, `npm/`	MCP registry entry, npm wrapper
`scripts/`	install.sh, the llms-full.txt generator, sync helpers
`docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`	pipeline detail

Rules

Commit subjects: <type>: <description> with type one of feat, fix, perf, refactor, docs, test, chore. Keep them short.
No em dashes or en dashes in code, comments, docs or commit messages. Plain sentences, no marketing language.
Add a failing test first for behavior changes. Parser tests sit next to the parsers and use testdata/.
Claims about size or speed in docs must come from bench/ output.
Do not describe unmerged features as shipped.
Do not commit generated files (stacklit.json, docs/DEPENDENCIES.md) unless the change is about them; CI refreshes them.
Release files (.goreleaser.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml) and npm/package.json are owner-controlled. Ask before editing.
Never commit secrets or .env files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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.

3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 721 tokens per session scan A 6a4a24a3ef11

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stacklit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository glincker/stacklit (131 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 721 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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 2026-11-09.

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