Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to laguagu/agents-best-practices. 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/laguagu/agents-best-practices/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laguagu/agents-best-practicesWrote 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/laguagu/agents-best-practices/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/laguagu/agents-best-practices/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/laguagu/agents-best-practices/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00250 | $0.00250 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00050 | $0.00050 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
agents-best-practices 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 7d 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
Agent Instructions
This repository contains best practices for the .agents/skills/ ecosystem.
Structure
.agents/skills/— Working skills (improving-skills, skill-creator, skill-finder)
Conventions
- Use forward slashes in all paths (
scripts/helper.pynotscripts\helper.py) - Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines; use
references/only when it reduces bloat - Pin dependency versions in scripts (
npx [email protected],uv run [email protected]) - Write descriptions in third person with explicit trigger contexts
- Every skill must pass: name matches directory, description under 1024 chars
Gotchas
- This repo is a governance/best-practices resource — it practices what it preaches
- Skills must be self-contained — no references to files outside the skill directory
When Editing Skills
- Read the current SKILL.md before making changes
- Run the improving-skills audit after changes
- Verify description stays under 1024 characters
- Test trigger accuracy with at least 3 manual prompts
- Ensure all referenced files exist
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 29 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A 4a598d522554
agents-best-practices AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository laguagu/agents-best-practices (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 250 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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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