Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles. 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/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ithinkihaveacat/dotfilesWrote 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/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/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/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles/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 | $0.02338 | $0.02338 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00935 | $0.00935 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00468 | $0.00468 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00234 | $0.00234 |
Grade A, and why
dotfiles 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 8d 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 — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Development Guidelines
This is a public collection of dotfiles, agent skills, and focused command-line tools. These rules apply to all changes, including code, configuration, documentation, tests, commit messages, and other repository metadata.
Engineering Approach
Favor stable, predictable, and understandable tools over novelty or peak performance. Keep scripts focused, but handle real boundaries—arguments, files, subprocesses, cleanup, signals, and network failures—carefully. Prefer clear, established solutions and sequential control flow; add dependencies, abstractions, concurrency, or optimizations only for a concrete need. Preserve deterministic interfaces and test in proportion to the risk of the change.
Before adding a capability, search for an existing canonical implementation. Avoid competing tools, while preferring small local helpers over premature shared abstractions.
Standards and Sources of Truth
This file contains repository-specific priorities. The detailed implementation
rules remain in the applicable guides under
skills/coding-standards/references/, including shell.md, python.md,
cli-tools.md, and caching.md. Read them before substantive changes and use
the formatting scripts in skills/coding-standards/scripts/ rather than their
underlying tools directly. Where this file is more opinionated, follow it.
Privacy and Information Control
This repository is strictly public. You must enforce rigid data segregation across all code, documentation, commit messages, and metadata to protect personal privacy and proprietary information.
Companion Repositories
This public repository works in tandem with two private companion repositories:
private(at~/.private): For personal secrets and private configurations.corp(at~/.corp): For employer-specific work and internal tools.
When operating in either of these companion workspaces, you MUST locate and
adhere to their respective AGENTS.md files. The companion AGENTS.md files
provide domain-specific privacy constraints that supersede the rules here, while
all general coding standards and script requirements from this document still
apply.
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.
- 8d ago Changed · -2 lines · -26 tokens per session 877ee51eaf1a
- 9d ago Changed · -1 lines df1845042b65
- 13d ago Changed · +14 lines · +200 tokens per session 047a5e52fbb7
- 27d ago Changed · -1 lines · -11 tokens per session fb38efaa1451
- 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +185 tokens per session scan C → A 7baae1850cf3
- 1mo ago Changed e6f37bccfbca
- 1mo ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 7f82c1d7b432
- 1mo ago First seen · 221 lines · 1,993 tokens per session scan C c0278c8e0635
dotfiles AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles (48 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,338 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 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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