atom AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for Atom, a project-starter template rather than a finished application. They explain how to create a new project from the template or maintain the template itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when bootstrapping a project from Atom or adding improvements and shared guidance to the Atom template.
Why use it?
They tell a coding agent which project context to collect and which documentation and working modes to follow.

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/machbuilds/atom/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/machbuilds/atom

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,472 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,472 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Measured yesterday against content hash e8683a3f0582, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

AGENTS.md · 125 lines

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:

  1. 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?
  2. 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 write
    • docs/WORKFLOW.md — how the toolchain composes
    • docs/PATTERNS.md — reusable patterns to consider
    • docs/LESSONS_LEARNED.md — pain points to avoid
    • docs/HOW_TO_WRITE_CONSTITUTION.md — for the new project's constitution
    • docs/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
  3. Copy scaffold/ into the new project repo. The .github/, .claude/, .gitignore, package.json, AGENTS.md all go to the new repo's root. Docker files do NOT live in scaffold/ (Docker is fully optional).

  4. Ask the user which Docker tier (None / Dockerfile / + compose /

    • devcontainer) and copy the matching subset from extras/docker/. See extras/docker/README.md for the tier-to-file mapping. If the stack matches one in extras/<category>/<preset>/ and that preset ships a Dockerfile, prefer the stack-specific one over the generic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 125 lines · 1,472 tokens per session scan A e8683a3f0582

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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.