Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jvogan/motif. 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/jvogan/motif/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jvogan/motifWrote 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/jvogan/motif/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jvogan/motif/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jvogan/motif/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/jvogan/motif/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jvogan/motif/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 | $0.01025 | $0.01025 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00410 | $0.00410 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00205 | $0.00205 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
Grade A, and why
motif 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 — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Motif — Agent Guide
This is a portable workbench and plugin repository with a narrow Motif-owned MCP App connector. Keep the Motif core host-neutral and independent of any desktop application, native database, or predecessor identity. Codex and Claude Science are adapters around the same runtime, not separate products.
Start here
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run preview:motif
Use npm run typecheck, never npx tsc --noEmit. The root tsconfig.json is
solution-style ("files": [] plus project references), so --noEmit finds no
files and exits 0 unconditionally, while tsc -b follows the project
references. It is not a weaker check; it does not check this repository.
scripts/__tests__/gate-parity.test.mjs fails if the typecheck script drifts
to --noEmit.
For visible changes, open preview/motif-artifact.html in a real browser and
exercise wide, narrow, light, dark, resized-panel, mouse, and keyboard states.
A passing DOM assertion is not proof that a control is legible or reachable.
Important paths
motif.html— Vite entrysrc/artifacts/motif-artifact.tsx— standalone runtime entrysrc/artifacts/motif-artifact.css— artifact stylingsrc/artifacts/motif-for-claude-science-plugin/— Claude plugin sourcesrc/artifacts/motif-for-codex-plugin/— Codex plugin sourcesrc/artifacts/motif-for-claude-science-skill/— standalone skillmcp/motif/— bounded Motif MCP tools and resource registrationsrc/mcp-app/— full-workbench MCP App bridgescripts/build-claude-science-artifact.mjs— deterministic distributablescripts/build-preview.mjs— isolated browser previewe2e/— focused real-browser workflow coverage
Product contracts
- Product name: Motif
- Compatibility package/plugin slug:
motif-for-claude-science - Current release version is
0.4.0and must stay aligned in runtime, package, manifest, and changelog. - New schemas, environment variables, page APIs, output files, and provenance
identifiers use
motif/MOTIF_names. - Do not reintroduce predecessor names or initials in public contracts. Do not claim that an older connector is Motif.
window.motifHelp()is the runtime manifest for page-local APIs.
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 · +4 lines · +41 tokens per session db46a56f2670
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +41 tokens per session 27fd62d551de
- 2mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 943 tokens per session scan A 234c8d02fb1c
motif AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jvogan/motif (49 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,025 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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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