abtop AGENTS.md

Project instructions for abtop, a terminal monitor for sessions from Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide changes to the Rust terminal application, including its entry point, setup option, event loop, display, and session monitoring.
Why use it?
They tell agents which language, architecture, layout, and data-source rules the project follows.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/graykode/abtop/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graykode/abtop

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 5,449 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5,449 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.05449 $0.05449
Opus 5 $0.02724 $0.02724
Sonnet 5 $0.01090 $0.01090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00545 $0.00545

Measured 2d ago against content hash 045975794e89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

abtop AGENTS.md scanned grade B 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`abtop --setup` automates this: creates a script at `~/.claude/abtop-statusline.sh` that writes rate limit JSON to `~/.claude/abtop-rate-limits.json`, and registers it in `~/.claude/settings.json`.
AGENTS.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

abtop

AI agent monitor for your terminal. Like btop++, but for AI coding agents.

Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode sessions.

Language Policy

English is mandatory for all project-facing work and communication.

  • Write all source code, comments, tests, fixtures, documentation, examples, configuration text, scripts, and user-facing strings in English.
  • Use English for every GitHub artifact: issue titles and bodies, issue comments, pull request titles and descriptions, review comments, commit messages, branch names, release notes, changelogs, discussions, labels, milestones, and workflow or CI messages.
  • Do not use non-English text in repository content or GitHub communication unless it is an exact external identifier, a required protocol value, or a direct quote needed for context.
  • When quoting or preserving non-English input, add an English explanation and keep the non-English text as short as possible.
  • If a contributor opens an issue, comment, or review in another language, respond in English and continue the thread in English.

Architecture

src/
├── main.rs                 # Entry, terminal setup, event loop, --setup flag
├── app.rs                  # App state, tick logic, key handling, summary generation
├── setup.rs                # StatusLine hook installation (abtop --setup)
├── ui/
│   └── mod.rs              # All panels in single file: header, context, quota,
│                           # tokens, projects, ports, sessions, footer
├── collector/
│   ├── mod.rs              # MultiCollector orchestration, orphan port detection
│   ├── claude.rs           # Claude Code: session discovery, transcript parsing
│   ├── codex.rs            # Codex CLI: session discovery via ps+lsof, JSONL parsing
│   ├── opencode.rs         # OpenCode: session discovery via ps + SQLite DB parsing
│   ├── process.rs          # Child process tree (ps) + open ports (lsof) + git stats
│   └── rate_limit.rs       # Rate limit file reading (~/.claude/abtop-rate-limits.json)
└── model/
    ├── mod.rs              # Re-exports
    └── session.rs          # AgentSession, SessionStatus, RateLimitInfo,
                            # ChildProcess, OrphanPort, SubAgent

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 410 lines · 5,449 tokens per session scan B 045975794e89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

abtop AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository graykode/abtop (3,480 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,449 tokens to every session, about $0.0272 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.