builders-stack: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

builders-stack AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from lonormaly/builders-stack. It costs 6,435 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for a monorepo, meaning one repository that contains multiple related packages, used by several coding agents. It maps the 17 packages and sets rules for temporary worktrees, which are separate checkouts for parallel changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding packages, creating and removing isolated worktrees, sharing dependencies safely, and following the repository's core development rules.
Why use it?
Shared dependencies and careless worktree setup can cause branches to affect one another or use the wrong packages. The guide defines the safe commands and cleanup responsibilities.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is lonormaly/builders-stack's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on builders-stack 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 builders-stack configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Grade C, and why

builders-stack AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 2 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 2mo ago.

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Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

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AGENTS.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — the primer for coding agents

Cross-tool guide for any AI coding agent working in this repo (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, …). Codex, Cursor, and Copilot read a repo-root AGENTS.md by convention — this file is the source of truth. Claude Code also reads CLAUDE.md; Cursor reads .cursor/rules.md. Both are short mirrors that point back here.

Read this before writing code. It tells you where everything lives so you don't reinvent what already exists.


RULE ZERO — WORKTREES ARE TEMPORARY AND SHARE DEPENDENCIES

Parallel work must use ops/dev/worktree.sh <branch>. Do not run raw git worktree add, copy node_modules, or symlink one checkout's complete node_modules into another checkout. The wrapper uses Bun 1.3.14's isolated global virtual store, so immutable packages are installed once and each worktree gets its own small tree of links. A whole-directory symlink is unsafe when branches change dependencies or an install mutates the directory. The wrapper delegates source checkout, physical copy-on-write, runtime inspection, removal, and pruning to Worktree Zero. The repository pins and checksum-verifies the binary through ops/dev/wt0.sh; do not install a moving release or substitute a second worktree implementation.

Every agent that creates a worktree owns its cleanup:

  • After the PR is merged or the task is abandoned, leave that checkout and run ops/dev/worktree.sh --rm <branch> from the main checkout.
  • Run ops/dev/worktree.sh --gc before creating more worktrees when old work is finished. The wrapper caps managed worktrees at eight; do not bypass the cap.
  • Never force removal. The wrapper refuses to remove a dirty worktree, a worktree with a live process, or a branch whose patch is not in origin/main. Preserve and finish that work instead.
  • Keep package.json, .tool-versions, CI's Bun version, and bunfig.toml in sync. Do not override the isolated linker or disable globalStore.
  • Every managed worktree carries an owner (WT0_OWNER, defaulting to the ImmorTerm session or the user) and refuses to be created below the free-disk floor BUILDERS_STACK_WORKTREE_MIN_FREE (default 10G). .wt0-generated is the reviewed list of disposable generated paths, so wt0 gc --ephemeral can reap finished worktrees natively; .wt0/hooks/pre-remove applies the same patch-in-main rule to gc that --rm applies, so unmerged work is never reaped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

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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.

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builders-stack AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lonormaly/builders-stack (42 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,435 tokens to every session, about $0.0257 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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