Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to intelligencedev/manifold. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intelligencedev/manifold/develop/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intelligencedev/manifoldWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/intelligencedev/manifold/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/intelligencedev/manifold/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/intelligencedev/manifold/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/intelligencedev/manifold/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/intelligencedev/manifold/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.02315 | $0.02315 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00926 | $0.00926 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00463 | $0.00463 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00231 | $0.00231 |
Grade A, and why
manifold 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 2mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- manifold CLAUDE.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Go/manifold
Coding Conventions
Project Structure & Module Organization
Source lives in internal/ (e.g., internal/agent, internal/orchestrator); keep new packages focused on one concern and avoid import cycles. CLI/Server entrypoints sit under cmd/ with binaries for the agent, HTTP server (manifold, implemented in cmd/agentd), and embedctl (if present). Docs reside in docs/, assets in assets/, and deployment scaffolding in docker/, configs/, and top-level example.env. Co-locate tests with their packages and share fakes through internal/testhelpers.
Package Organization
- Keep packages small and focused on a single responsibility.
- Avoid cyclical dependencies; extract interfaces when necessary.
Dependency Injection
- Promote testability via interface‑driven design.
- Use constructor functions (e.g.,
NewService(...)) to inject dependencies.
Concurrency
Follows Go's concurrency mantra: "Don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating." The channel becomes the synchronization point.
Essential Go CLI Tools
The following Go command-line tools are essential for development, testing, and maintenance in this project. Use them as described to ensure code quality and consistency:
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
go build |
Compiles packages and their dependencies into an executable. |
go run |
Compiles and runs the specified Go program. |
go fmt |
Formats Go source code according to the language's style guidelines. |
gofmt |
Standalone formatter; also available as an executable. |
go test |
Runs tests and benchmarks. Use -coverprofile with go tool cover to analyze test coverage. |
go vet |
Examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs that could be bugs. |
go doc |
Extracts and generates documentation for Go packages. |
go get |
Adds, updates, or removes dependencies in the go.mod file. |
go mod |
Provides access to module operations (e.g., go mod tidy to clean up dependencies). |
go tool |
Runs the specified Go tool (see below for examples). |
cgo |
Enables the creation of Go packages that call C code. |
pprof |
For profiling Go programs. |
fix |
Rewrites Go programs that use old language and library features. |
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 2,315 tokens per session scan A b71c212722b2
manifold AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository intelligencedev/manifold (503 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,315 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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.
manifold AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| manifold AGENTS.mdintelligencedev/manifold | Instructions file | 503 | 16d ago | MIT | A | 2,315 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |