What is TARS AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for TARS, a desktop application that manages Claude Code configuration such as skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP servers, plugins, and profiles.

Use them when developing or testing the TARS desktop app, Rust workspace, command-line scanner, frontend, provider integrations, or configuration profiles.

They explain how the application is organized and which build, test, formatting, and configuration rules contributors must follow.

How inceptyon-labs/TARS configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to inceptyon-labs/TARS. 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/inceptyon-labs/TARS/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inceptyon-labs/TARS

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 724 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 724 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00724	$0.00724
Opus 5.5	$0.00290	$0.00290
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00145	$0.00145
Haiku 4.5	$0.00072	$0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8645fb0dd303, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

TARS 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 1mo 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 · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TARS — agent notes

Desktop app for managing Claude Code configuration (skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP servers, plugins, profiles). See README for features and usage.

Build & test

Frontend lives in apps/tars-desktop: bun install, then bun run tauri dev / bun run tauri build.
Rust workspace: cargo build, cargo test, cargo run -p tars-cli -- scan.
Frontend tests: bun run test:run (Vitest + React Testing Library, *.test.ts(x)), e2e bun run test:e2e (Playwright).
Coverage: bun run test:coverage (v8). There is no cargo tarpaulin setup.
Lint/typecheck before commit: bun run lint, bun run typecheck, cargo fmt --all, cargo clippy --all -- -D warnings.
There is no format script — Prettier runs via the pre-commit hook. Enable hooks after clone: git config core.hooksPath .githooks.

Modules

crates/tars-scanner — non-destructive discovery of config across scopes, collision detection.
crates/tars-core — profiles, diff/apply/rollback engine, SQLite storage.
crates/tars-providers — AI provider integrations (key validation, model discovery, pricing); consumed by src-tauri/src/commands/api_keys.rs.
crates/tars-cli — CLI wrapper for the scanner.
apps/tars-desktop/src-tauri — Tauri IPC backend over the crates.

Invariants

Tauri commands return Result<T, String>; frontend shows failures with toast.error() (Sonner). Never panic in library code.
unsafe_code = "forbid" workspace-wide via [workspace.lints]; clippy must pass with -D warnings.
IPC types live in apps/tars-desktop/src/lib/types/ — keep Rust and TS shapes in sync when changing commands.
Never execute code from scanned configs; validate paths against traversal and sanitize anything passed to a shell.
Discovery-first, safe-by-default: scan before modifying; changes get diff preview, backup, and rollback.

Configuration scopes

Precedence high → low: Managed > Local > Project > User. The full per-OS path table lives in README ("Configuration Scopes") — single source, don't duplicate it here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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.

1mo ago Changed · +13 lines · +177 tokens per session 8645fb0dd303
2mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 547 tokens per session scan A 59c313933a38

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TARS AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository inceptyon-labs/TARS (38 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 724 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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