untether: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

untether AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from littlebearapps/untether. It costs 1,248 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Untether, a Telegram bridge that lets you control coding agents running on your computer from a phone or another device. It documents the system's parts, coding rules, and message-handling contract.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Untether's runners, Telegram commands, progress tracking, JSONL messages, logging, linting, tests, or supported coding-agent integrations.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a shared explanation of how Telegram, agent runners, progress updates, and permissions fit together. This reduces guesswork when changing the codebase.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to littlebearapps/untether. 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/littlebearapps/untether/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/littlebearapps/untether

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Grade A, and why

untether 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 18d 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 · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Untether — Agent Instructions

Telegram bridge for AI coding agents. Control Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi from your phone (Gemini CLI and Amp are deprecated and unsupported — when a sweep breaks them, xfail/skip the test rather than fixing the runner) or any device — agents run on your machine in the background while you're away from the terminal. Features interactive permissions, voice input, cost tracking, and live progress streaming.

Engine parity roadmap: v0.36.1 Antigravity (#558), v0.36.2 Codex app-server (#960–#968), v0.36.3 OpenCode ACP (#969–#974). OpenCode support means the 1.x CLI (npm opencode-ai); 2.x (@opencode/cli) is refused before spawning (#970). Website: https://untether.cc · Help centre (user docs, synced flat from docs/ on master): https://littlebearapps.com/help/untether/<file-stem>/

Architecture

Telegram <-> TelegramPresenter <-> RunnerBridge <-> Runner (claude/codex/opencode/pi/gemini/amp)
                                       |
                                  ProgressTracker
  • Runners (src/untether/runners/) — engine-specific subprocess managers
  • RunnerBridge (src/untether/runner_bridge.py) — connects runners to Telegram presenter
  • TelegramPresenter (src/untether/telegram/bridge.py) — renders progress, inline keyboards, answers
  • Commands (src/untether/telegram/commands/) — command/callback handlers
  • Schemas (src/untether/schemas/) — msgspec structs for JSONL parsing

Key conventions

  • Python 3.12+, anyio for async, msgspec for JSONL, structlog for logging
  • Ruff for linting (uv run ruff check src/ tests/), pytest with 80% coverage threshold
  • Australian English in user-facing text (realise, colour, behaviour, licence)
  • Conventional commits: feat:, fix:, docs:, refactor:, test:, chore:
  • Feature branches: feature/*, fix/*, docs/*

Runner 3-event contract

Every run MUST emit exactly:

  1. StartedEvent — once, when session ID is known
  2. ActionEvent(s) — zero or more
  3. CompletedEvent — exactly once, always final

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 18d ago Changed · +17 lines · +539 tokens per session f13b2eff93ee
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 709 tokens per session scan A f75af8c61da7

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untether AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository littlebearapps/untether (74 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,248 tokens to every session, about $0.0050 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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