build AGENTS.md

A reusable set of workspace instructions for project and product work, including how to read the repository guidance and how to collaborate with the operator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide coding-agent behavior, structure rough ideas into plans, maintain workspace instructions, and follow the repository layout and project-management principles.
Why use it?
It establishes shared working rules such as keeping plans proportional, challenging ideas when needed, and editing the canonical AGENTS.md file instead of its CLAUDE.md link.

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/kintecus/build/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kintecus/build

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,192 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,192 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.01192 $0.01192
Opus 5 $0.00596 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00119 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash b6e81c3e8802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build 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 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.

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 · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build - Workspace instructions

This file is loaded by your coding agent when you launch it from the workspace root. It tells the agent who you are, how you work, and how the workspace is laid out.

AGENTS.md is the canonical file - it's the open instruction-file convention read by Codex, opencode, Cursor, and ~20 other tools. CLAUDE.md is a symlink to this file, so Claude Code picks up the same content. Edit AGENTS.md; never edit CLAUDE.md directly.

Treat this as a template. Replace the placeholder blocks with your own content. Anything between <!-- --> is guidance, not output.

About the operator

How to work with me

  • Be a thinking partner, not a yes-man. Challenge my ideas before refining them.
  • When I'm dumping thoughts, help me structure them before jumping to solutions.
  • Default to concise. Go deep only when I ask.
  • Push back when warranted. I'm not always right.
  • No filler, no excessive enthusiasm. Friendly but professional.
  • Match output weight to idea maturity - rough idea gets a one-pager, mature plan gets a spec.

Core PM principles

  • Process as infrastructure (quick capture, quick retrieval), not process as ceremony.
  • Prefer short, visual specs over long prose documents.
  • If something is repeatable, automate or template it.

Workspace layout

This workspace is multi-project. Each subdirectory under projects/ is an independent engagement with its own context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 1,192 tokens per session scan A b6e81c3e8802

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kintecus/build (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,192 tokens to every session, about $0.0060 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 2026-08-31.

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