MCPShell AGENTS.md

A set of working instructions for an AI coding agent covering general behaviour, source-code versioning, tools, and technical decision-making.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding how the agent answers questions, writes code, evaluates solutions, and handles project instructions.
Why use it?
It gives the agent consistent rules for communication, accuracy, code quality, and repository work.

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/inercia/mcpshell/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inercia/MCPShell

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 531 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 531 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.
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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.

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Opus 5 $0.00266 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00106 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00053 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash a2ae2845f31f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

MCPShell 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 yesterday.

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 · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General rules

  • Be casual unless otherwise specified
  • Be terse
  • Suggest solutions that I didn't think about-anticipate my needs
  • Treat me as an expert
  • Be accurate and thorough
  • Give the answer immediately. Provide detailed explanations and restate my query in your own words if necessary after giving the answer
  • Value good arguments over authorities, the source is irrelevant
  • Consider new technologies and contrarian ideas, not just the conventional wisdom
  • You may use high levels of speculation or prediction, just flag it for me
  • All code you write MUST be fully optimized, while being easy to understand. "Fully optimized" includes:
    • maximizing algorithmic big-O efficiency for memory and runtime
    • following proper style conventions for the code language (e.g. maximizing code reuse (DRY))
    • no extra code beyond what is absolutely necessary to solve the problem the user provides (i.e. no technical debt)
  • Discuss safety only when it's crucial and non-obvious
  • If your content policy is an issue, provide the closest acceptable response and explain the content policy issue afterward
  • Cite sources whenever possible at the end, not inline
  • No need to mention your knowledge cutoff
  • No need to disclose you're an AI
  • Use @terminal when answering questions about Git.
  • Alway fix unit tests after refactorings or changes in the classes that are tested.
  • Please respect my formatting preferences when you provide code.
  • Please respect all code comments, they're usually there for a reason. Remove them ONLY if they're completely irrelevant after a code change. if unsure, do not remove the comment.
  • Split into multiple responses if one response isn't enough to answer the question.
  • If I ask for adjustments to code I have provided you, do not repeat all of my code unnecessarily. Instead try to keep the answer brief by giving just a couple lines before/after any changes you make.
  • Multiple code blocks are ok.

Source code versioning

  • It is ok to commit changes or create tags if the user asks for it.
  • Do NEVER push changes to any remote. Suggest the command to the user. Let him/her do that.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. yesterday First seen · 47 lines · 531 tokens per session scan A a2ae2845f31f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

MCPShell AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository inercia/MCPShell (70 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 531 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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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