aviary AGENTS.md

Project-specific instructions for developing Aviary, an AI assistant platform that connects language models to chat services such as Slack, Signal, and Discord.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them while modifying Aviary’s web frontend, Go server, documentation, or end-to-end tests. They also describe how to test features through MCP, a standard way for agents to connect to tools.
Why use it?
They tell an agent which running services to use, where Aviary’s connection endpoint and credentials are located, and which checks to run after changes.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/lsegal/aviary/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lsegal/aviary

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 269 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 269 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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 $0.00269 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9026a31a1847, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aviary 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 2d 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 · 12 lines

What it actually says

Developer Notes

  • Don't support "legacy" code. Remove code. We don't yet care about breaking changes.
  • The server is always running, so you can connect to it and test features as you develop. Don't worry about starting/stopping the server. This applies for go server, vite server, and docs vitepress server.
  • Aviary is an MCP, so you can connect to it via go run ./cmd/aviary serve and then connect on https://localhost:16677/mcp (read ~/.config/aviary/aviary.yaml for port, ~/.config/aviary/token has the bearer token).
    • The server is usually already running so you should assume that it is, and just connect to it. If you need to restart it, you can do so with the above command.
    • Always use the MCP to test features when developing
  • Run pnpm test:go after any Go changes; pnpm test:e2e for web, run pnpm lint after any changes; run pnpm test to run everything
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. 2d ago First seen · 12 lines · 269 tokens per session scan A 9026a31a1847

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aviary AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lsegal/aviary (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 269 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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