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.
npx agentmods add instructions/machbuilds/atom/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/machbuilds/atomWhat 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 | $0.01472 | $0.01472 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00736 | $0.00736 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00294 | $0.00294 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00147 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
atom 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 yesterday.
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 — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — atom
This is atom, a project-starter template. It is not an application. When you read this file, you are being asked to help bootstrap a NEW project from this template, OR to maintain the template itself by adding new learnings.
The name: every project starts from atom. Atom is the seed.
This file is the source of truth for AI tooling instructions. Tool-specific
files (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, .cursorrules,
.github/copilot-instructions.md) are forwarders that point here.
Two modes you operate in here
Mode 1 — Bootstrap a new project
When the user says "let's start a new project from atom", or similar:
-
Ask for project context first:
- Project name and one-line description (what + why)
- Primary stack/runtime (Next.js? Python? Swift? Other?)
- Deploy target (Railway? Vercel? Fly? AWS? Custom? Don't know yet?)
- Cost envelope expectations (per-request or monthly)
- Solo build or multi-agent (Backend / Design / Test / Deploy split)?
- Public-facing or internal-only?
-
Read the docs in this order (you must, even if you've read them before on a different machine — they may have evolved):
docs/VOICE.md— how to writedocs/WORKFLOW.md— how the toolchain composesdocs/PATTERNS.md— reusable patterns to considerdocs/LESSONS_LEARNED.md— pain points to avoiddocs/HOW_TO_WRITE_CONSTITUTION.md— for the new project's constitutiondocs/HOW_TO_PICK_DEPLOY_TARGET.md— only if user said "don't know yet"docs/HOW_TO_DESIGN.md— only if the project has a UI
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Copy
scaffold/into the new project repo. The.github/,.claude/,.gitignore,package.json,AGENTS.mdall go to the new repo's root. Docker files do NOT live inscaffold/(Docker is fully optional). -
Ask the user which Docker tier (None / Dockerfile / + compose /
- devcontainer) and copy the matching subset from
extras/docker/. Seeextras/docker/README.mdfor the tier-to-file mapping. If the stack matches one inextras/<category>/<preset>/and that preset ships aDockerfile, prefer the stack-specific one over the generic.
- devcontainer) and copy the matching subset from
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.
- yesterday First seen · 125 lines · 1,472 tokens per session scan A e8683a3f0582
atom AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository machbuilds/atom (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,472 tokens to every session, about $0.0074 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
ai-workflow AGENTS.md
Instructions for cunhaax/ai-workflow, covering ai workflow template, rules — non-negotiable, project overview, commands and architecture.
trackly-cli CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for trackly-app/trackly-cli, covering trackly-cli, tech stack, backend production source of truth, directory structure and key commands.
com-example-config-AsyncTestConfig
Instructions for PIsberg/vibetags, covering copilot instructions for asynctestconfig and immutable type.
pupila CLAUDE.md
Instructions for FranRom/pupila, covering claude.md, where things live, stack, run locally and repo layout.
claude-bridge AGENTS.md
Instructions for kadaba/claude-bridge, covering agents.md — using claude-bridge from any ai coding cli, two independent channels, 1. coordination (the conversation), 2. file transfer (the bytes) — same for every tool and workflows.
UsageAtlas AGENTS.md
Instructions for SRX9/UsageAtlas, covering repository guidelines and coding approach.