Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jcast90/relay. 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/jcast90/relay/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jcast90/relayWrote 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/jcast90/relay/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jcast90/relay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jcast90/relay/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/jcast90/relay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jcast90/relay/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 | $0.03051 | $0.03051 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01220 | $0.01220 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00610 | $0.00610 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00305 | $0.00305 |
Grade C, and why
relay AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
- Tests use per-test tmp dirs. **Never `rm -rf` outside your own tmp dir.** No test should touch a real `~/.relay/`. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Conventions for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and anything else) working in Relay. This is the short, agent-targeted companion to CONTRIBUTING.md — read both if you're new.
For the product pitch and user-facing features, see README.md. For the deeper walkthrough, see docs/getting-started.md. This doc is about how to work in the code, not what the product is.
Project overview
Relay turns a sentence, a GitHub issue, or a Linear ticket into a running plan of AI-coded work: classifier → planner → decomposer → scheduler → verification → PR watcher. Sessions run inside the user's normal Claude or Codex CLI; Relay wraps them with an MCP server and writes all state (channels, tickets, decisions, crosslink messages) to ~/.relay/ as JSON/JSONL.
The codebase is multi-language by design: TypeScript orchestrator (the CLI, MCP server, orchestration pipeline) + Rust TUI (tui/, ratatui) + Tauri desktop GUI (gui/, React + Vite frontend with a Rust backend) + a shared Rust crate (crates/harness-data/) that the TUI and GUI both use to read ~/.relay/. The three dashboards never talk to each other — they all read the same files on disk.
Development workflow
Most of the loop is live:
- TS edits take effect immediately.
bin/rly.mjsrunssrc/cli.tsthroughtsx, sorly …reflects your source changes on the next invocation. No rebuild. - After
git pulltouchespnpm-lock.yamlorCargo.lock, runrly rebuild. It runspnpm installfirst automatically (pass--skip-installto skip). - Rust TUI changes:
rly rebuild --tui. - Tauri GUI changes:
rly gui --devfor hot-reload, orrly gui --rebuildto refresh the.appbundle.
Set RELAY_USE_DIST=1 if you want to exercise the pre-built dist/ path (marginally faster startup, but stale until rly rebuild).
Verification before pushing
Run these:
pnpm test && pnpm typecheck && pnpm build
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 · 137 lines · 3,051 tokens per session scan C b921c7882fa9
relay AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jcast90/relay (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,051 tokens to every session, about $0.0122 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
relay AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| relay AGENTS.mdjcast90/relay | Instructions file | 5 | 3mo ago | MIT | C | 3,051 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 275k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |