opencolab: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

opencolab AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from jimezsa/opencolab. It costs 5,357 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for OpenColab, a TypeScript and Node.js command-line tool and local gateway for coordinating research projects and AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying OpenColab, following its architecture and naming rules, or running the prescribed development and validation commands.
Why use it?
It tells coding agents which files define the requirements, how the project is organized, and how to build and test it.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is jimezsa/opencolab's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on opencolab itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything opencolab configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jimezsa/opencolab. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jimezsa/opencolab/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimezsa/opencolab

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opencolab 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 20d ago.

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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 · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Project Structure & Module Organization

OpenColab is a TypeScript/Node.js ESM CLI and local gateway for a multi-project, multi-agent research workflow. Keep repository guidance aligned with the actual runtime, not aspirational structure.

Top-level sources of truth:

  • docs/spec.md: source of truth for requirements and architecture.
  • docs/VISION.md: product direction and long-term intent.
  • README.md: quickstart, high-level overview, and condensed runtime/reference guide.
  • package.json: npm package metadata, published CLI surface, and pack/publish lifecycle hooks.
  • pnpm-workspace.yaml: root pnpm workspace definition; includes src/web/client/ so one root install provisions the Vite web UI dependencies used by pnpm run build.
  • install.sh: package-first macOS/Linux installer, managed-install manifest writer, and command shim setup, with optional --hacky git-clone fallback.
  • install.ps1: package-first Windows PowerShell installer, managed-install manifest writer, and command shim setup, with optional --hacky git-clone fallback.
  • projects/SKILLS/: shared built-in skill library copied into agent prompts, not per-project duplicates, including search, summarization, grounded paper QA, scientific LaTeX paper/report writing, image, architecture-diagram, and iterative experiment-loop workflows. Packaged installs must ship this directory too.
  • src/: TypeScript implementation.
  • src/web/: OpenColab Studio implementation, with read-only gateway API handlers in server/, shared DTOs in shared/, and the Vite/React/Tailwind/shadcn client workspace in client/.
  • src/agent-templates/: built-in agent markdown scaffolds loaded by the runtime when seeding agent files and prompt context, with shared files in shared/ and role-specific folders such as professor/, beginner/, autoresearch/, and specialist/. Role AGENTS.md templates should stay concise and avoid restating detailed rules already owned by shared files or injected built-in guidance. Packaged installs must ship the runtime-accessible equivalents.
  • tests/: Node node:test suite.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

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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. 20d ago Changed · +2 lines · +324 tokens per session 5df79ecd8079
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 5,033 tokens per session scan A 63067fe9744c

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opencolab AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jimezsa/opencolab (11 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,357 tokens to every session, about $0.0214 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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