Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to kitlangton/motel. 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/kitlangton/motel/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitlangton/motelWrote 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/kitlangton/motel/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kitlangton/motel/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kitlangton/motel/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/kitlangton/motel/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kitlangton/motel/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 | $0.03617 | $0.03617 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01447 | $0.01447 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00723 | $0.00723 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00362 | $0.00362 |
Grade A, and why
motel 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 — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Commands
- Install deps:
bun install - Run the TUI:
bun run devorbun run start(auto-ensures a managed OTLP daemon is running in the background so traces ingest while the TUI is up) - Start the background daemon only:
bun run daemon(same asmotel start) - Stop the managed daemon:
bun run stop - Daemon status JSON:
bun run status - Restart daemon + relaunch TUI:
bun run restart - Run the local server in the foreground (no daemon, no TUI):
bun run server - Run tests:
bun run test - Query services via CLI:
bun run cli services - Query traces via CLI:
bun run cli traces <service> [limit] - Query a span via CLI:
bun run cli span <span-id> - Query spans for one trace:
bun run cli trace-spans <trace-id> - Search spans via CLI:
bun run cli search-spans [service] [operation] [parent=<operation>] [attr.key=value ...] - Search traces via CLI:
bun run cli search-traces <service> [operation] [attr.key=value ...] - Query trace stats via CLI:
bun run cli trace-stats <groupBy> <agg> [service] [attr.key=value ...] - Query logs via CLI:
bun run cli logs <service> - Search logs via CLI:
bun run cli search-logs <service> [body] [attr.key=value ...] - Query log stats via CLI:
bun run cli log-stats <groupBy> [service] [attr.key=value ...] - Query logs for one trace:
bun run cli trace-logs <trace-id> - Query logs for one span:
bun run cli span-logs <span-id> - Query facets via CLI:
bun run cli facets <traces|logs> <field> - Print Effect setup instructions:
bun run instructions - Build the web UI:
bun run web:build - Dev the web UI (with hot reload):
bun run web:dev - Typecheck:
bun run typecheck - Effect LSP diagnostics over the whole project:
bunx effect-language-service diagnostics --project tsconfig.json --format text - Effect LSP interactive setup wizard:
bunx effect-language-service setup
Release Strategy
- npm package:
@kitlangton/motel - Current published npm
latest:0.2.4(npm view @kitlangton/motel dist-tags --json) - Tags are versioned as
vX.Y.Z(git tag --sort=-version:refnameshowsv0.2.4,v0.2.3, ...) - Publishing is handled by GitHub Actions in
.github/workflows/publish.yml, not by local manualnpm publish - The publish workflow triggers on
git pushof tags matchingv*or via manualworkflow_dispatch - The workflow runs
bun install --frozen-lockfile,bun run typecheck,bun run test, thennpm publish --provenance npm publishrunsprepublishOnly, which builds the web UI viabun run web:build- Before tagging a release, make sure the committed
package.jsonversion matches the intended git tag exactly - Preferred release flow: update
package.jsonversion, commit the release changes, create tagv<package.json version>, push the commit and tag, then verify the GitHub Actions publish and npm dist-tags - Do not create or push release tags from a dirty worktree with unrelated uncommitted changes; ask before including unrelated edits in a release
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 First seen · 182 lines · 3,617 tokens per session scan A 3d8dbf97962d
motel AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kitlangton/motel (300 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,617 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 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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