Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to helderberto/dotfiles. 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/helderberto/dotfiles/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/helderberto/dotfilesWrote 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/helderberto/dotfiles/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/helderberto/dotfiles/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/helderberto/dotfiles/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/helderberto/dotfiles/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/helderberto/dotfiles/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 | $0.00366 | $0.00366 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00146 | $0.00146 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00073 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
dotfiles 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
AGENTS.md
- Extreme concision in all interactions and commits. Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision.
- No explanations nobody asked for
- Code, comments, commits and docs in English, whatever language the conversation is in
- Always TDD: failing test first, even for vague asks ("fix bug" → reproducing test)
- Prefer CLI over MCP; MCP only when the CLI can't do it
- Repetitive edits → write a script, don't hand-edit N files
- 3 failed attempts → stop, report what you learned, ask
- Multiple interpretations → present all, don't pick silently. Simpler approach exists → say so. Push back when warranted — no sycophancy
Surgical Changes
- Don't improve adjacent code, comments, or formatting. Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently
- Only remove orphans YOUR changes created. Unrelated dead code → mention, don't delete
Verification
- Multi-step tasks: state plan as
step → verify: checkbefore coding
Code Principles
- Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative: no abstractions for single-use code, no unrequested flexibility/config, no error handling for impossible scenarios
- 200 lines that could be 50 → rewrite. "Would a senior call this overcomplicated?" → simplify
- No comments — code must self-document; comment only the non-obvious "why". When you do: ≤20 words/sentence, one idea per sentence, active voice, no em-dashes or parentheses
Claude Code
- Worktree sessions: one plain command per Bash call, literal absolute paths, no shell variables as script args
Git
- Atomic commits: one per logical concern. Conventional commits, unless repo history says otherwise
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.
- 5d ago Changed · +2 lines · +25 tokens per session 55b0ae11f2da
- 8d ago Changed · +4 lines · +27 tokens per session 00e5e2d1cc13
- 1mo ago Changed · +25 tokens per session 05be9b3d4768
- 1mo ago Changed · -37 lines · -289 tokens per session 489261bfc320
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 tokens per session 32e98bdae9f3
- 2mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 575 tokens per session scan A afd475e6767c
dotfiles AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository helderberto/dotfiles (114 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 366 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-30.
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