Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need. 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/Khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-needWrote 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/khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/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/khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need/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 | $0.00422 | $0.00422 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00211 | $0.00211 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00084 | $0.00084 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
boring-is-all-you-need 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 12d 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.
What it actually says
AGENTS.md - Boring Is All You Need Codex Guide
This file gives Codex a compact project map for contributing to Boring Is All You Need.
Project Intent
Boring Is All You Need is a local-first harness for AI coding agents. It packages concise instructions, progressive rules, validation scripts, lifecycle hook examples, and release evidence so agent-assisted development is easier to scope, verify, review, and recover.
Working Rules
- Keep changes scoped to the requested workflow, tool, template, or documentation surface.
- Read the nearest project guide, relevant docs, and directly touched scripts before editing.
- Prefer deterministic scripts, tests, and hooks over longer instructions when behavior must be enforced.
- Preserve the public release surface: no private paths, local credentials, unpublished plans, or maintainer-only notes.
- Keep English as the default public surface; update the paired Chinese docs when user-facing behavior changes.
- Use
rgorrg --filesfor repository search.
Validation
Run the smallest relevant gate before committing:
pwsh.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\validate-release-readiness.ps1
Focused checks:
pwsh.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\validate-phase3.ps1
pwsh.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\validate-runtime-slice.ps1
pwsh.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\test-agent-hooks.ps1
Use -AllowDirty with validate-release-readiness.ps1 only while reviewing an intentional work-in-progress tree.
Release Discipline
- Do not publish, retag, or rewrite remote history without explicit maintainer approval.
- Treat
v1.0.0and later releases as audited artifacts: clean history, reproducible validation, and clear release notes. - Use docs/github-publication-runbook.md for public release steps.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 41 lines · 422 tokens per session scan A 139e2b4c4254
boring-is-all-you-need AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Khalilzhang0825/boring-is-all-you-need (176 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 422 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 2026-08-30.
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