windows-appshot-codex: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

windows-appshot-codex AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex. It costs 822 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of AGENTS.md instructions for the Windows Appshot Codex plugin repository. It explains the repository layout, safety rules, release files, and validation commands for capturing Windows window images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the Windows Appshot plugin to understand its manifest, documentation, PowerShell scripts, default behavior, generated files, and repository checks.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project-specific rules needed to edit and validate the plugin safely, including what not to commit or change without approval.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

This is josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on windows-appshot-codex 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 windows-appshot-codex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex. 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/josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 822 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 822 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00822 $0.00822
Opus 5.5 $0.00329 $0.00329
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00164 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00082 $0.00082

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cc8a0a2ec96f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-appshot-codex 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 2mo 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.

AGENTS.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Instructions

This repository packages the windows-appshot Codex plugin.

Project Shape

  • .codex-plugin/plugin.json is the release manifest. Keep its version field semantic.
  • README.md is user-facing plugin documentation. Keep $windows-appshot commands before direct PowerShell script references unless the section is explicitly for development, validation, or advanced script usage.
  • skills/windows-appshot/SKILL.md is the Codex skill entrypoint.
  • scripts/New-Appshot.ps1 captures the foreground Windows window into a local appshot bundle.
  • scripts/Start-AppshotHotkey.ps1 starts the optional hotkey listener.
  • scripts/Install-WindowsAppshotPlugin.ps1 installs or updates the plugin checkout and personal marketplace entry.
  • scripts/Test-WindowsAppshotPlugin.ps1 is the repo-local validation entrypoint used by CI.

Safety Rules

  • Do not edit Codex session files or private Codex storage.
  • Do not commit generated appshots/ output or logs.
  • Do not commit or push without explicit user approval in the current conversation.
  • Keep the default command target as NewThread unless there is a deliberate release decision to change it.
  • Preserve PowerShell single-quote escaping in generated clipboard commands.
  • Keep the install/update script idempotent and non-destructive. It may clone, fast-forward pull, update the marketplace entry, and run codex plugin add; it must not delete unrelated user files.
  • Preserve bounded UI Automation traversal and generic Pane/editable/password/off-screen filtering.
  • Do not reintroduce aggregate UI Automation TextPattern extraction without a privacy review.
  • Do not make query-based capture silently accept ambiguous matches. Browser tab activation must remain confirmation-first unless -NoWindowConfirmation is explicitly supplied for tests or trusted automation.
  • -TargetIndex is allowed as explicit selection for regular windows after listing. If the indexed target is a browser tab, it must still require -NoWindowConfirmation.
  • Query capture must verify that the selected window is foreground before screenshot capture. Browser-tab capture must also verify UI Automation selected-tab state when available or a strong active-title match for the selected tab.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 2mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 822 tokens per session scan A cc8a0a2ec96f

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windows-appshot-codex AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 822 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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 2026-08-31.

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