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.
npx agentmods add instructions/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linuxWhat 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 | $0.01444 | $0.01444 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00722 | $0.00722 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00289 | $0.00289 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00144 | $0.00144 |
Grade A, and why
codex-desktop-linux 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Purpose
This repository repackages OpenAI's signed official Linux chatgpt package as
the independently named codex-desktop distribution. It preserves the
official ELF/Electron payload and bundled tools, adds disabled-by-default Linux
features, builds deb/RPM/pacman/AppImage/Nix outputs, and ships a Rust update
manager that rebuilds from the signed stable APT repository.
Non-negotiable rules
- Support only the latest signed stable OpenAI Linux package on
amd64andarm64. Remove obsolete drift paths in the same change. - Trust
InReleasethrough the pinned repository key, then verifyPackagesand package SHA-256 values.latestURLs are never a trust root. - Never execute upstream maintainer scripts. Extract the data payload only.
- A clean build with no enabled ASAR feature must preserve
resources/app.asarbyte-for-byte. - Keep the output identity
codex-desktopunder/opt/codex-desktop; do not install the upstream APT source, key, package identity, or maintainer scripts. - Keep the user-facing desktop name ChatGPT Community and its distinct
community icon;
ChatGPTwithout the qualifier identifies the upstream app. - The default core patch registry is empty. A core patch requires a reproduced launch/work blocker and a required regression test.
- Experimental or workflow-specific behavior belongs in
linux-features/and remains disabled in committed configuration. - Known retired feature IDs are ignored; arbitrary unknown IDs remain errors.
- Do not edit generated output (
codex-app/,dist/, candidates,target/).
Source routing
- Upstream verification/extraction:
scripts/lib/upstream-linux-package.jsandscripts/lib/upstream-linux-package.sh. - Build orchestration:
install.sh,scripts/lib/*.sh. - Launcher:
launcher/start.sh.template. - Feature descriptors/resources/hooks:
linux-features/<id>/. - ASAR engine/reporting:
scripts/patches/,scripts/patch-linux-window-ui.js,scripts/lib/patch-report.js. - Packaging:
scripts/build-*.sh,scripts/lib/package-common.sh,packaging/. - Updater:
updater/src/; minimal rebuild payload:packaging/update-builder/. - Signed-release automation:
scripts/automation/upstream-linux-package-watchdog/. - Nix:
flake.nix,nix/upstream-linux-packages.json,nix/*.nix.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 141 lines · 1,444 tokens per session scan A b1d42c73f92a
codex-desktop-linux AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux (3,744 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,444 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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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