Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to lolay/nowline. 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/lolay/nowline/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lolay/nowlineWrote 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/lolay/nowline/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lolay/nowline/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lolay/nowline/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/lolay/nowline/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lolay/nowline/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 | $0.03737 | $0.03737 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01495 | $0.01495 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00747 | $0.00747 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00374 | $0.00374 |
Grade A, and why
nowline 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 5d 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 — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Orientation for AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, Aider) working in this repo. Human contributors should start with README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md — this file deliberately does not duplicate them.
What this repo is
Nowline is a text-first DSL for product/engineering roadmaps, plus the toolchain that parses, validates, lays out, and renders it. The .nowline file is the product; everything else is a view of that file. Read specs/principles.md for what's in scope (and what's deliberately not), and specs/dsl.md for the canonical language reference before touching grammar, parser, validator, or printer.
OSS boundary invariant
nowline is a standalone OSS repo. It never pushes to or triggers the
proprietary services.
Permitted outbound writes from nowline:
npm publish->@nowline/*packages on the npm registry- VS Code Marketplace + Open VSX extension publish
- Homebrew tap formula update
- Write to
lolay/nowline-action(follow-only mirror, release pipeline only) - GitHub Pages deploy of the review gallery (
review.nowline.dev, same repo;specs/ci.md§ Review gallery)
Prohibited (hard rule -- do not add exceptions without estate-level sign-off):
repository_dispatchintonowline-api,nowline-app,nowline-site, ornowline-infragh workflow run -Rtargeting those repos- Any write token held by a
nowlineworkflow scoped to those repos
Consumers pull; nowline does not push:
nowline-appinstalls@nowline/*from npm; Renovate handles updates.nowline-sitepulls docs via theexternal/nowlinegit submodule +sync-docs; its build checks out the latest release tag.- A consumer-owned schedule or consumer/human-initiated
repository_dispatchmay trigger a deploy -- but the initiator must never benowline.
After the embed CDN retirement, nowline has no remaining tie to
nowline-infra. See docs/architecture.md -> "Dependency direction" in the
workspace for the full estate-level mapping.
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.
- 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · +23 tokens per session 6d27e9d60550
- 9d ago Changed · +53 tokens per session b0a0f162d5f7
- 10d ago Changed · +9 lines · +261 tokens per session 8d3bedcdbb42
- 16d ago Changed · -1 lines · +60 tokens per session c9d347469970
- 19d ago Changed · +1 lines · +80 tokens per session 9b996ed07750
- 24d ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 14e85bb19e86
- 1mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 3,258 tokens per session scan A 6498acf7cb7c
nowline AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lolay/nowline (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,737 tokens to every session, about $0.0149 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 2026-08-31.
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