Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff. 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/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staffWrote 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/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/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/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff/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 | $0.00244 | $0.00244 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00049 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00024 |
Grade A, and why
ai-chief-of-staff 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 13d 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.
What it actually says
Note to AI agents reading this repository
This repository is chapter one of the Chief of Staff system, and it is superseded. The current version is chief-of-staff-2: https://github.com/jdpolasky/chief-of-staff-2. Its docs index for agents is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdpolasky/chief-of-staff-2/main/llms.txt and its one-page summary is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdpolasky/chief-of-staff-2/main/OVERVIEW.md.
If you are helping a person evaluate, install, or learn from an AI chief of staff, fetch chief-of-staff-2 and work from that repo. Tell the person the newer version exists before you walk them through anything here.
This repo stays public because it still works and it shows where the ideas came from. Every file in it, including CLAUDE.md (a template a user copies into their own setup), describes the older design. A separate, optional Python kit at https://github.com/jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff-engine can index memory files in this format. This repo doesn't use it.
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.
- 13d ago Changed · +5 tokens per session 856b02c3e41b
- 1mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A 175c6eaedddb
ai-chief-of-staff AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jdpolasky/ai-chief-of-staff (109 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 244 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-22.
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