What is ai-cli AGENTS.md?

Project-specific instructions for ai-cli, a command-line application for interacting with AI models and tools. They explain its providers, safety policies, automatic tool discovery, plugins, and development workflow.

Use them when developing, building, testing, or extending ai-cli, including its providers, policies, discovery system, and plugins.

They give coding agents the project context and rules needed to make compatible changes without guessing how the CLI is organized.

How manusa/ai-cli configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to manusa/ai-cli. 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/manusa/ai-cli/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manusa/ai-cli

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Measured 2mo ago against content hash 73d3c2b3e44c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ai-cli 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 2mo 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 · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai-cli - AI Agents Instructions

Always reference these instructions first and fallback to search or bash commands only when you encounter unexpected information that does not match the info here.

This file provides guidance to AI coding agents (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

ai-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) tool that enables users to interact with AI models and tools in a safe, automated, and tailored manner. It supports multiple inference providers and a variety of tools, allowing users to create AI-powered workflows directly from the terminal.

The main difference between ai-cli and other AI tools is its support for policies, discovery of providers and tools, and extensibility through plugins.

By using policies, organization admins can set rules for AI interactions and tool usage, ensuring compliance and safety for enterprise users. The discovery feature allows the CLI to automatically find and use available inference providers and tools based on the user's environment, making it easy to get started without extensive configuration. The extensible architecture allows developers to add new plugins, tools, and providers, making ai-cli a flexible solution for various AI use cases.

Development Commands

Build and Development

make build          # Build the project (includes clean, tidy, format, lint)
make test           # Run all tests
make format         # Format Go code
make tidy           # Tidy Go modules
make lint           # Run golangci-lint
make clean          # Clean build artifacts

Running the Application

./ai-cli help       # Show available commands after building
./ai-cli chat       # Start TUI-based chat session
./ai-cli discover   # Discover available tools and providers
./ai-cli version    # Show version information

Testing

go test ./...                    # Run all tests
go test -v ./pkg/cmd/...         # Run tests for specific package with verbose output
go test -count=1 -v ./...        # Run tests without cache

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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.

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ai-cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository manusa/ai-cli (28 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,241 tokens to every session, about $0.0050 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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