Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jonashertner/opencaselaw. 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/jonashertner/opencaselaw/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonashertner/opencaselawWrote 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/jonashertner/opencaselaw/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonashertner/opencaselaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonashertner/opencaselaw/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/jonashertner/opencaselaw/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonashertner/opencaselaw/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 | $0.00572 | $0.00572 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00229 | $0.00229 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00114 | $0.00114 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00057 | $0.00057 |
Grade A, and why
opencaselaw 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 1mo 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 — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md - OpenCaseLaw Codex Guidance
OpenCaseLaw is a production Swiss legal corpus and public API. Treat this repo as live legal infrastructure: favor evidence, small reversible changes, and explicit escalation over broad autonomous edits.
Bootstrap
Before non-trivial maintenance work, read:
CLAUDE.md~/.claude/projects/-Users-jonashertner-caselaw-repo-1/memory/MEMORY.md- Relevant memory topic files from that index
TECHNICAL_OVERVIEW.txt- The private maintenance log under
OPENCASELAW_PRIVATE_ROOTwhen set; otherwise maintenance scripts resolveopencaselaw-internalbeside the primary checkout (including when invoked from a linked worktree)
Verify memory claims against current code, logs, or production probes before using them as ground truth.
Hard Rules
- Production read DBs must be opened
mode=ro&immutable=1. - Never add write paths to live
decisions.db,reference_graph.db, ordecision_structure.db. - Preserve atomic-swap rebuild behavior; do not replace it with in-place DB writes or naive copies.
- All FTS5 user input must pass through
_sanitize_fts5. - Do not construct legal citation strings or direct quotations yourself. Use the project citation and verbatim-text sources.
- New scraper data paths must use official sources, not entscheidsuche. Retire
es_*feeds only after verified direct parity and no coverage loss. - Tests stay offline unless a target explicitly says it is a live check.
- Never read or print secrets from
.env*, crontab, systemd environment files, or production config.
Autonomous Boundary
Autonomous Codex work may measure, document, improve read-only monitoring, add offline tests, and make small non-gated fixes after verification.
In autonomous mode, stop at a proposal for changes touching:
publish.py,build_fts5.py, DB schemas,base_scraper.py- new scrapers or material scraper behavior changes
- QC blocking behavior
state/**, production output DBs, billing, secrets, backup destinations, systemd deployment behavior, or paid resources
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +35 tokens per session a342ca96b55b
- 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 537 tokens per session scan A 134f57c02ef6
opencaselaw AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonashertner/opencaselaw (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 572 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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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