git-override AGENTS.md

Agent instructions for git-local-override, a Bash tool that keeps local file changes without committing them to Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the command-line tool, its Git hooks, shared shell modules, or recursive local-override configuration.
Why use it?
They explain the repository structure and how configuration files and Git hooks work together to manage local versions of tracked files.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/jonathanabila/git-override/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathanabila/git-override

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 5,231 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5,231 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.05231 $0.05231
Opus 5 $0.02616 $0.02616
Sonnet 5 $0.01046 $0.01046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00523 $0.00523

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a62b589f755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

git-override AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 2 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 2d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

2. **Curl**: `curl ... | bash` downloads hooks directly to `.git/hooks/`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Curl**: `curl ... | bash` downloads hooks directly to `.git/hooks/`
AGENTS.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Instructions for git-local-override

This document provides guidelines for AI agents working on the git-local-override project.

Project Overview

git-local-override is a bash-based tool that allows users to maintain local modifications to git-tracked files without committing them. It uses git hooks to transparently manage file content based on recursive config files (.local-overrides.yaml) in the repository.

Repository Structure

git-local-override/
├── bin/                          # Executable CLI tool
│   └── git-local-override        # Main command-line interface
├── hooks/                        # Git hook scripts
│   ├── local-override-lib.sh     # Shared library functions
│   ├── local-override-filter-smudge   # Smudge filter (checkout)
│   ├── local-override-filter-clean    # Clean filter (staging)
│   ├── local-override-post-checkout
│   ├── local-override-pre-rebase
│   ├── local-override-pre-commit
│   └── local-override-post-commit
├── shared/                       # Shared shell modules
│   ├── local-override-resolver.sh # Canonical recursive config resolver
│   └── local-override-shell-init.sh # Shell wrapper source (printed by shell-init)
├── scripts/                      # Installation and release scripts
│   ├── install.sh
│   ├── uninstall.sh
│   ├── pin-manifest.sh           # Shared pin-file list (release.sh + check-docs-sync.sh)
│   └── release.sh                # Changelog release prep helper
├── tests/                        # Test suite
│   ├── run-tests.sh              # Main test runner (unit suite)
│   ├── run-docker.sh             # Docker test launcher
│   ├── test-lib.sh               # Shared assertion harness (info/pass/fail, counters)
│   ├── coverage.sh               # kcov entrypoint (opt-in coverage run)
│   ├── bench-filter-process.sh   # filter.process benchmark + roundtrip harness
│   ├── docker/                   # Docker test infrastructure
│   │   ├── Dockerfile            # Ubuntu test image
│   │   ├── Dockerfile.bash3      # Bash 3.2 compatibility image
│   │   └── entrypoint.sh
│   └── integration/              # Integration tests
│       ├── test-install.sh       # Install/uninstall tests
│       ├── test-git-ops.sh       # Git operations tests
│       ├── test-precommit.sh     # Pre-commit framework tests
│       └── test-worktrees.sh     # Linked-worktree tests
├── .github/                      # GitHub configuration
│   ├── workflows/
│   │   ├── test.yml              # CI test workflow
│   │   └── release.yml           # Tag-triggered GitHub release publish
│   ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/           # Issue templates
│   ├── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
│   ├── CODEOWNERS
│   └── dependabot.yml
├── docs/                         # Additional documentation (DESIGN.md, rebase-regression-tdd-plan.md)
├── plans/                        # Implementation plans + index (plans/README.md)
├── Formula/                      # Draft Homebrew formula (unpublished)
│   └── git-local-override.rb
├── AGENTS.md                     # Canonical agent instructions (this file)
├── CLAUDE.md                     # Symlink -> AGENTS.md
├── VERSION                       # Release version file (synced by scripts/release.sh)
├── .pre-commit-hooks.yaml        # Pre-commit integration definitions
├── .pre-commit-config.yaml       # Pre-commit hooks for this repo
├── .editorconfig                 # Editor configuration
├── .gitattributes                # Line ending configuration
├── Makefile                      # Build automation
├── README.md                     # User documentation
├── CONTRIBUTING.md               # Contributor guidelines
├── CHANGELOG.md                  # Version history
├── SECURITY.md                   # Security policy
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md            # Contributor code of conduct
└── LICENSE                       # MIT license

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 507 lines · 5,231 tokens per session scan C 5a62b589f755

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-override AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonathanabila/git-override (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,231 tokens to every session, about $0.0262 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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