AutoResearch: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

AutoResearch AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from Maleick/AutoResearch. It costs 389 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for AutoResearch, a package and workflow bundle for agents that repeatedly improve and verify code or other work. They describe where its source, commands, integrations, hooks, documentation, and release settings live.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing AutoResearch, changing agent routing or installation behavior, or preparing a release that must keep package metadata and documentation aligned.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of changing the wrong files, publishing accidentally, or leaving version numbers and documentation out of sync.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

This is Maleick/AutoResearch's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on AutoResearch 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 AutoResearch configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Measured 7d ago against content hash 91d030064fb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AutoResearch 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 7d 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 · 45 lines

What it actually says

Auto Research Agent Guide

Project Purpose

Auto Research is an OpenCode and Hermes Agent workflow bundle plus npm package for structured autonomous improve-verify loops.

Source of Truth

  • Runtime source lives in src/.
  • OpenCode commands live in commands/.
  • The Auto Research skill bundle lives in skills/autoresearch/.
  • The Hermes Agent skill bundle and integration docs live in skills/hermes/.
  • Shell hooks live in hooks/.
  • OpenCode package metadata lives in .opencode-plugin/plugin.json.
  • Installation, architecture, and release docs live in docs/ and wiki/.

Development Rules

  • Build context from existing files before changing behavior.
  • Prefer the smallest correct change.
  • Do not commit, tag, push, create releases, or publish packages unless the user explicitly asks.
  • Do not commit runtime artifacts from .autoresearch/ or generated result files.
  • Keep VERSION, package.json, package-lock.json, src/constants.ts, and .opencode-plugin/plugin.json aligned for releases.
  • When Hermes cron, delegate_task, model routing, or install behavior changes, keep README.md, INSTALL.md, docs/, wiki/, and skills/hermes/ aligned.

Security Rules

  • Do not add install flows that pipe remote scripts into a shell.
  • Keep package contents guarded by hooks/verify-package.sh.
  • Do not hardcode secrets, tokens, credentials, or private paths.
  • Pass shell variables into inline scripts through environment variables or argv, not by interpolating into source code.

Verification

Run the focused relevant checks before claiming work is complete. Release-prep changes should run:

npm audit --audit-level=moderate
npm run typecheck
npm run build
npm run verify:pack
npm test
npm pack --dry-run
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. 7d ago First seen · 45 lines · 389 tokens per session scan A 91d030064fb6

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AutoResearch AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Maleick/AutoResearch (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 389 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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