cleo: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

cleo AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from kryptobaseddev/cleo. It costs 6,003 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for the CLEO project, including required memory and project-rule checks, coding standards, documentation requirements, and quality gates. They also define boundaries for where files may be created or moved.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding code changes, checking project context, enforcing quality practices, and verifying package boundaries before files are added or relocated.
Why use it?
They give coding agents shared project rules so changes follow the repository's type-safety, structure, documentation, and validation expectations.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is kryptobaseddev/cleo's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on cleo 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 cleo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kryptobaseddev/cleo. 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/kryptobaseddev/cleo/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.06003 $0.06003
Opus 5 $0.03002 $0.03002
Sonnet 5 $0.01201 $0.01201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00600 $0.00600

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6dae103bb7bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cleo 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 · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@~/.agents/AGENTS.md @.cleo/project-context.json

Run: cleo memory digest --brief

CLEO Project Rules (MANDATORY)

Rules below are NON-NEGOTIABLE for this repo. Protocol surface (sessions, tasks, memory, orchestration, evidence gates) is in CLEO-INJECTION.md and not duplicated here.

Code Quality

Type safety (zero tolerance). NEVER any, unknown as a shortcut, as unknown as X casting chains, or inline/mocked types. Use packages/contracts/src/ — build new contracts if genuinely missing.

DRY + SOLID. Read existing code first. Search for existing utilities before writing new ones. Centralize shared logic into lib modules. Match existing style, naming, and structure. Keep imports sorted (biome enforces).

Documentation. Add TSDoc (/** ... */) on ALL exported functions, classes, types, constants. Update existing docs — never create new ones unless necessary. Validate with forge-ts when available.

Anti-patterns (instant rejection). Claiming "tests pass" without running them. Workarounds instead of root-cause fixes. Skipping biome/lint. Creating new files when extension would do. catch (err: unknown). console.log in production. Imports without circular-dep check. Modifying test expectations to match broken code.

Quality Gates (before completing)

pnpm biome check --write .   # format + lint
pnpm run build               # build
pnpm run test                # ZERO new failures
git diff --stat HEAD         # verify scope

ANY failure → fix before completing.

Package Boundary (verify before creating/relocating files)

Package Purpose
packages/core/ SDK — runtime primitives, domain logic, store, memory, sentient, gc
packages/cleo/ CLI ONLY — thin dispatch + command handlers
packages/contracts/ Shared types — envelope, operations, errors
packages/cleo-os/ Harness — Pi/Claude-Code adapters, CleoOS runtime
packages/caamp/ Agent manifest packaging (CAAMP)
packages/studio/ Frontend Studio (SvelteKit)
packages/lafs/ LAFS envelope spec + validator
packages/cant/ .cant DSL + parser
packages/llmtxt-core/ llmtxt BlobOps/AgentSession primitives

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 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 · 304 lines · 6,003 tokens per session scan A 6dae103bb7bf

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cleo AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kryptobaseddev/cleo (160 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,003 tokens to every session, about $0.0300 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 2026-09-03.

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