Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/shellgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-acceleratorWrote 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/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/shell)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/shell"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/shell.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00414 | $0.00414 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00207 | $0.00207 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00083 | $0.00083 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
apex-accelerator shell.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Shell Scripting Guidelines
Quick Reference
| Rule | Standard |
|---|---|
| Shebang | #!/usr/bin/env bash (Bash) or #!/bin/sh (POSIX) |
| Safety | set -euo pipefail (Bash) or set -eu (POSIX sh) |
| Variables | Double-quote: "$var"; use ${var} for clarity; avoid eval |
| Cleanup | trap cleanup EXIT for temp files/resources |
| Constants | readonly SCRIPT_NAME="$(basename "$0")" |
| Temp files | mktemp — never hardcode temp paths |
| JSON/YAML | Use jq/yq, not grep/awk — fail fast if missing |
| Conditionals | [[ ]] in Bash; [ ] only for POSIX portability |
Script Structure
- Header comment explaining purpose
set -euo pipefailimmediately after shebangtrap cleanup EXITfor resource teardown- Default variables at top; functions next;
maincalled at bottom - Validate required parameters before execution
- Clear, concise
echofor status — avoid excessive logging
Working with Structured Data
- Prefer
jqfor JSON,yqfor YAML over text-processing hacks - Validate required fields; treat parser errors as fatal
- Quote filters; use
--raw-outputfor plain strings - Document parser dependencies at script top; fail fast if absent
Argument Parsing
Use while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do case $1 in ... pattern with
shift for each option. Include -h|--help with a usage() function.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 41 lines · 414 tokens per session scan A cd20e996d298
apex-accelerator shell.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 414 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.
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