Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to luckyPipewrench/pipelock. 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/luckyPipewrench/pipelock/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelockWrote 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/luckypipewrench/pipelock/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/luckypipewrench/pipelock/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/luckypipewrench/pipelock/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/luckypipewrench/pipelock/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/luckypipewrench/pipelock/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 | $0.03179 | $0.03179 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01272 | $0.01272 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00636 | $0.00636 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00318 | $0.00318 |
Grade A, and why
pipelock 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 13d 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 — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md - Pipelock Contributor Guide
Pipelock is an agent firewall: a network and tool proxy that mediates AI-agent HTTP, WebSocket, and MCP traffic and scans it for secret exfiltration, prompt injection, SSRF, and tool poisoning. Direct egress controls are deployment guidance; binary-enforced coverage applies to mediated traffic. Configured MCP upstreams are an exception to private-address SSRF blocking: local/private servers are allowed, but cloud metadata endpoints remain blocked.
Quick Reference
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Module | github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock |
| Go | 1.26+; CI tests Go 1.26 and 1.27 |
| License | Apache 2.0 core, ELv2 under enterprise/ |
| Binary | Single Go binary; size varies by OS, build tags, and release flags |
| Dependencies | See go.mod. Run make stats before citing the current direct-dependency count. |
Capability surface
The code-checked capability manifest is docs/security/capability-manifest.json. It lists the operator entry point and license gate for each surface below. Free means no license feature is required.
| Capability | Access | Operator entry point | Platform or deployment qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP, WebSocket, and proxy mediation | Free | pipelock run | Applies only to traffic routed through Pipelock; direct agent egress needs containment or network policy. |
| MCP proxy scanning | Free | pipelock mcp proxy | Applies only to MCP transports that run through the Pipelock proxy. |
| Signed action receipts | Free | flight_recorder | |
| Host containment for agent processes | Free | pipelock contain | Kernel-enforced containment requires Linux, a private network namespace, nftables, and the managed identities. The recommended unprivileged systemd service emits signed pre-launch posture from a root signer that verifies its own managed namespace, live runtime mounts, and proxy doorway; contain run instead signs a host-side preflight and also emits a post-session workspace statement. Filesystem confinement is a separate containment.filesystem.mode setting. enforce hides the host filesystem with ProtectSystem=strict and ProtectHome=tmpfs and binds the agent home plus unexpired workspace grants. Every managed launch hides host /run and /dev/shm and binds only the namespace identity under /run; systemd may add its own read-only, empty mount-propagation directory at /run/systemd/incoming. Omitted or off otherwise retains host filesystem visibility. A process that can create a user namespace can remount, same-uid /proc stays visible, private /tmp is shared with the network-namespace anchor and its forwarders, and operator-written units are left unchanged. |
| Single-agent process sandbox | Free | pipelock sandbox | Kernel isolation requires Linux user namespaces. Without them, best-effort network isolation only sets HTTP(S)_PROXY; seccomp adds restrictions only on linux/amd64. Unix socket isolation uses Landlock ABI 9 for pathname sockets and ABI 6 for abstract sockets; older linux/amd64 kernels deny Unix socket creation and datagram socketpairs in the workload while retaining connected stream and sequenced-packet pairs and the proxy bridge. |
| Cooperative command launch | Free | pipelock exec | Steers cooperative Unix and Windows clients through a running proxy; programs can ignore environment settings. Use contain or sandbox for operating-system enforcement. |
| Global canary tokens | Free | canary_tokens | |
| Named agent profiles | Pro | agents. | |
| Per-agent sandbox overrides | Pro | agents..sandbox | |
| Per-agent crypto address allowlists | Pro | agents..allowed_addresses | |
| Read-only operator dashboard | Pro or Enterprise | pipelock dashboard serve | |
| Full assessment artifacts | Assess | pipelock assess finalize | |
| Conductor fleet coordination | Enterprise | pipelock conductor serve | |
| Per-agent coverage certificates | Pro | pipelock dashboard coverage-cert generate | |
| Exemption lifecycle records | Pro | pipelock dashboard exemption list | |
| Legal-hold metadata | Pro | pipelock dashboard legal-hold list | |
| Fleet audit sink | Enterprise | pipelock fleet-sink | |
| Fleet receipt reports | Enterprise | pipelock conductor fleet report | |
| Emergency kill switch | Free | kill_switch | |
| Rule bundles | Free | rules | |
| Adaptive enforcement | Free | adaptive_enforcement | |
| TLS interception | Free | tls_interception | Requires a configured local CA that the intercepted client trusts; passthrough traffic remains encrypted and cannot be body-scanned. |
| A2A protocol scanning | Free | a2a_scanning | Applies to A2A traffic carried on Pipelock's supported forward-proxy and MCP HTTP paths. |
| Browser shield | Free | browser_shield | Applies only to supported browser response traffic that flows through Pipelock. JavaScript responses are scanned but not rewritten. |
| Offline receipt verification | Free | pipelock verify-receipt | |
| Verdict explanations | Free | pipelock explain | |
| Deployment diagnostics | Free | pipelock doctor |
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.
- 13d ago Changed · +23 tokens per session 2b3e0d00f2c3
- 15d ago Changed · +75 tokens per session c0fd3124336a
- 17d ago Changed · +14 tokens per session d3b24a9e6bad
- 20d ago Changed · +1 lines · +176 tokens per session 4a1c5dac1586
- 24d ago Changed · +18 tokens per session bcd6427064ce
- 28d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session 80e40d80831a
- 1mo ago Changed · +37 tokens per session 60b27a9a264c
- 1mo ago Changed · +9 tokens per session 45a35123e4f4
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +72 tokens per session 18e30005c2c7
- 1mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 2,745 tokens per session scan A bc14bed9ac4a
pipelock AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository luckyPipewrench/pipelock (936 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,179 tokens to every session, about $0.0127 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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