holon: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

holon AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from holon-run/holon. It costs 1,987 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository guidelines for Holon, an early-stage headless runtime for long-lived, event-driven agents. They describe the project structure and prioritise clear runtime behaviour and explicit trust boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on the Rust runtime, queues and task flow, agent templates, tests, benchmarks, documentation, and the separate GitHub bot service.
Why use it?
They help contributors avoid premature framework complexity and keep the runtime’s message, task, and output models understandable.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is holon-run/holon's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on holon itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything holon configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to holon-run/holon. 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/holon-run/holon/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/holon-run/holon

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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holon 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 6d ago.

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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 · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Holon is a headless, event-driven runtime for long-lived agents, with web and native clients. Keep the codebase small, explicit, and easy to reason about.

Project Structure & Module Organization

  • src/: Rust runtime implementation and executable entrypoints.
  • crates/: supporting Rust crates, including decision and model-client code.
  • tests/: Rust integration tests and shared test support.
  • builtin_templates/: runtime-managed agent templates.
  • agent_templates/: checked-in role templates and their agent guidance.
  • packages/: shared API, App, conversation, and native-client SDK/wire packages.
  • web-gui/: web client and OpenAPI generation/check tooling.
  • apps/: native Android, iOS, and macOS clients.
  • benchmark/ and benchmarks/: benchmark harness, fixtures, suites, and task manifests.
  • docs/: current runtime contracts, architecture notes, and design records.
  • holonbot/: Node-based GitHub App/bot retained as a separate service asset.
  • skills/: repository skills and task workflows.
  • README.md and README.zh-CN.md: public-facing project definition.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md, Makefile, and .github/workflows/: contributor workflow and verification entrypoints.

Do not introduce large framework scaffolding before the runtime model is clear.

Product Intent

Holon is meant to be:

  • headless
  • event-driven
  • long-lived
  • explicit about trust boundaries
  • explicit about user-facing versus internal output

When design choices conflict, prefer runtime clarity over convenience.

Development Priorities

Prioritize work in this order:

  1. Runtime model and message envelope.
  2. Queue, wake, sleep, and task lifecycle.
  3. Event ingress and trust classification.
  4. Structured user-facing output.
  5. Integrations and adapters.

Do not start with UI work unless the task explicitly requires it.

Autonomous Issue Selection

When the operator authorizes an agent to choose issues autonomously, use these maintainer-controlled labels as an opt-in candidate pool. This is a repository policy, not an implemented runtime permission gate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 6d ago Changed · +77 lines · +1,052 tokens per session b5704128b049
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 935 tokens per session scan A ddf86903c2d4

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holon AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository holon-run/holon (194 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,987 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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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