Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Johnny-xuan/TreeWork. 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/Johnny-xuan/TreeWork/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Johnny-xuan/TreeWorkWrote 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/johnny-xuan/treework/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/johnny-xuan/treework/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/johnny-xuan/treework/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/johnny-xuan/treework/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/johnny-xuan/treework/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 | $0.00424 | $0.00424 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00170 | $0.00170 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00085 | $0.00085 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
TreeWork 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 26d 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
TreeWork Repository Guidance
TreeWork is a standalone, single-file Agent Skill. This repository also contains an optional experimental Codex plugin and the source used to maintain it.
Read Before Editing
- Standalone workflow behavior: read
skills/treework/SKILL.md. - Experimental plugin workflow behavior: read the relevant file under
plugins/treework/skills/treework/references/. - Build Tree runtime: read
docs/architecture/build-tree-runtime.md. - Transaction, event, checkpoint, or projection behavior: read
docs/architecture/transaction-projection.md. - Project Map product behavior: read
docs/product/project-map.md. - Development and release commands: read
docs/development.mdanddocs/releasing.md.
Repository Boundaries
plugins/treework/is the installable experimental Codex plugin. Keep it free of project history, UI source, prototypes, and maintainer-only documents.skills/treework/is the independently installable TreeWork Skill. Keep its complete working contract in one self-containedSKILL.md.- Agent references explain how to use TreeWork. Do not put Rust modules, API internals, migration plans, or frontend architecture there.
project-map-ui/is source;plugins/treework/assets/graph-panel/is generated output..TreeWork/is user-project state created by TreeWork and must never be bundled into the installable plugin.
Change Discipline
- Preserve the mental model: align intent, build the tree, work along its branches.
- Keep the standalone Skill free of runtime dependencies and mandatory CLI rules.
- Add or update tests for public behavior.
- Run
make testandmake validatebefore declaring a change complete.
Experimental Runtime Boundaries
- Keep the Agent-facing command surface small.
- Do not add Team, Runner, assignment, or provider-session state.
- Project Map remains a read-only projection.
- Machine-owned accepted state changes only through transactions.
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.
- 26d ago Changed · +5 lines · +49 tokens per session 79007982b131
- 1mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 375 tokens per session scan A 0cec79e3fbd9
TreeWork AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Johnny-xuan/TreeWork (13 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 424 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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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