chronicle-mcp: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

chronicle-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from loerei/chronicle-mcp. It costs 847 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Chronicle MCP, a tool that helps coding agents search and understand past conversations, tool runs, and errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when investigating previous sessions, execution failures, or decisions in the chronicle-mcp repository.
Why use it?
They tell the agent how to find useful history without reading large raw log files that add noise and waste context.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is loerei/chronicle-mcp's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on chronicle-mcp 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 chronicle-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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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 5.1 $0.00847 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00424 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00169 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00085 $0.00085

Measured 3d ago against content hash 845989007196, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chronicle-mcp 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 3d 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 · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chronicle MCP Agent Guidelines

[!IMPORTANT] Global Policies apply to this repository by default. This file contains repository-specific rules for chronicle-mcp.

Code Intelligence & History Exploration Rules

1. Do NOT Read Raw Log Files Directly

  • NEVER call view_file or filesystem read tools on raw log files (such as transcript.jsonl, transcript_full.jsonl, or Cursor state SQLite databases).
  • Doing so is token-inefficient, introduces noise, and causes prompt truncation.

2. Mandatory Chronicle MCP Tool Usage

When asked to read, query, summarize, or search past conversations, sessions, tool executions, or errors, you MUST use the registered chronicle-mcp tools:

  • chronicle_guide: Call first when starting history exploration to review targeted recipes and parameter guidelines. Specify topic (or topics) for specialized workflows:
    • topic: "general" (default): Decision router flowchart, tool selection matrix, and token conservation rules.
    • topic: "search": Precision turn search, hybrid vs keyword modes, turn slicing (lastTurns, turnIndex: -1, startTurn/endTurn), and field projection.
    • topic: "artifacts": Artifact discovery, shallow/subtree extraction, and zero-token direct disk export via output: "<path>".
    • topic: "subagents": Swarm topology, delegation trees, and aggregated multi-agent chronological timelines.
    • topic: "benchmarks": Multi-variant A/B/C performance comparison, token metrics dictionary, and interactive context chart export.
    • topic: "debug_errors": Tool failure analytics, error rate tracking, and loop thrashing diagnosis (serverName::toolName).
    • topic: "all": Full comprehensive reference manual.
  • sync_history: Call sync_history(force=true) before querying recent history to ensure all un-indexed log entries from disk are indexed into the database.
  • query_transcript: Primary tool to read, query, filter, slice, or export transcript entries (detailLevel: 'compact' | 'full' | 'summary'). Supports session ID prefix lookup (>= 6 chars).
  • list_sessions: Retrieve history metadata and session IDs. Defaults to compact 1-line markdown list (saving 80–90% tokens). Supports format: "json", detailLevel: "compact" | "full", fields projection, and limit: 1–100.
  • search_history: Perform zero-copy turn-level hybrid (FTS5 + Vector RRF), semantic, or keyword search across sessions. Defaults to compact 1-line markdown. Supports fields projection and output direct file export.
  • get_session_relationship: Map parent sessions, ancestors, and child subagent trees (maxDepth: 1–10). Supports session prefix resolution.
  • get_tool_usage_stats: View per-tool call counts, failure rates, duration analytics, and thrashing loop detection (format: "markdown" or "json").
  • get_session_benchmarks: View execution steps, tool calls, BPE token counts, context window growth, and caching stats.
  • get_session_artifacts: Retrieve generated plan, task, or walkthrough markdown files with optional subtree discovery.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 847 tokens per session scan A 845989007196

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chronicle-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository loerei/chronicle-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 847 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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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