ThumbGate: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

ThumbGate AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate. It costs 4,838 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Infrastructure and release-management instructions for ThumbGate, a firewall and hygiene system for AI coding agents. It covers pull requests, branches, worktrees, CI checks, and protected branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect repository state, classify pull requests and branches, manage approved merges, clean verified temporary data, and confirm CI on the resulting main commit.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to decide what can be merged or cleaned up without bypassing branch protection or losing work.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: SessionStart hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument.

This is IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on ThumbGate 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 ThumbGate configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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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 5.1 $0.04838 $0.04838
Opus 5 $0.02419 $0.02419
Sonnet 5 $0.00968 $0.00968
Haiku 4.5 $0.00484 $0.00484

Measured today against content hash 18bfefa3b7a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ThumbGate 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 today.

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 · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ThumbGate — The Infrastructure Firewall

npm package: thumbgate | Brand: ThumbGate

Session PR Management and System Hygiene

At session start, run bin/agent-loop --health --json (fail closed), then read CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and GEMINI.md; query the local ThumbGate memory; inspect every open PR, every open GitHub Issue, remote branch, worktree, and current main CI run before changing repository state.

In PR-management sessions, reconcile GitHub Issues and Actions plus any available Linear AI and local Obsidian coordination surfaces. Close or advance actionable Issues in the same session — do not leave the Issues board untouched while only draining PRs. If Linear, ~/Documents/AI-Agent-Sync, or the standalone copilot CLI is unavailable, record that fact and continue with deterministic gh, git, and repository checks. Copilot advice is never authoritative.

Fleet Coordination Contract (Mandatory, Every Agent, Every Session)

Multiple agents (Claude Code, Codex, grok, Gemini, Hermes) work this repo and the ~/Documents/AI-Agent-Sync Obsidian vault concurrently. Before ANY state mutation — checkout switch, clean/reset, branch or worktree creation, push, PR open/merge, or vault write — complete the coordination sweep:

bash .claude/scripts/session-bootstrap/fleet-coordination-check.sh

The sweep (read-only) reports: the single-writer checkout lease, active vault claims touching ThumbGate, vault dirty-writer signals, live herdr panes (when the gateway is up), Linear issues in flight, and the open-PR census. Skill: .claude/skills/fleet-coordination/SKILL.md (also wired into .claude/settings.json SessionStart so Claude Code runs it automatically).

Non-negotiable rules:

  1. One live session owns a checkout (node scripts/session-lease.js claim). A live foreign lease means use a separate worktree, not a force-checkout.
  2. Never git add -A in a shared checkout. Stage explicit paths only.
  3. Check Agent-Jobs/running/ in the vault before claiming or editing shared project files; treat live claims as owned until stale (>7d or dead PID).
  4. Never write to another agent's state file. Commit only your own vault file via PR; the vault has its own branch protection.
  5. Do not duplicate an open PR or an open Linear issue. Claim first, then work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 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. today Changed · +11 lines · +134 tokens per session 18bfefa3b7a9
  2. yesterday Changed · +64 lines · +793 tokens per session ae7eadb0fb20
  3. 7d ago First seen · 254 lines · 3,911 tokens per session scan A 6f7d16be5396

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ThumbGate AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IgorGanapolsky/ThumbGate (26 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 4,838 tokens to every session, about $0.0242 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.

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