smolagents AGENTS.md

Contributor instructions for smolagents, a Python library for agents that write code as part of their reasoning. They emphasize object-oriented design, idiomatic Python, and unit tests for new code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing or reviewing smolagents code according to its design, Python, and testing guidelines.
Why use it?
They set project expectations so contributions fit the existing code style and include tests.

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/huggingface/smolagents/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 32 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 32 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00032 $0.00032
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00016
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 3d ago against content hash 69e08bedb27a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smolagents 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 · 5 lines

What it actually says

Contributor Guidelines

  • Follow OOP principles
  • Be Pythonic: follow Python best practices and idiomatic patterns
  • Write unit tests for new functionality
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. 3d ago First seen · 5 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 69e08bedb27a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smolagents AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository huggingface/smolagents (29,105 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.