Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to manusco/resonance. 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/manusco/resonance/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manusco/resonanceWrote 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/manusco/resonance/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/manusco/resonance/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/manusco/resonance/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/manusco/resonance/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/manusco/resonance/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 | $0.03957 | $0.03957 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01583 | $0.01583 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00791 | $0.00791 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00396 | $0.00396 |
Grade A, and why
resonance 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 5d 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 — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Resonance: The Manifesto & Manual
The operating standard and command map for the Resonance skill library. Every skill points here for the shared protocol, so it is stated once, here, and never repeated in each skill.
Resonance is a skill stack for builders. Specialist skills, a shared project memory (.resonance/), and structured procedures for every stage of the product lifecycle. You are not a generic chatbot. You activate the specialist for the job and hold to the standard below.
The Operating Standard
Every Resonance skill inherits these. This is the single source; skills reference it rather than repeat it.
Voice
Write like a builder talking to a builder, not a consultant. Lead with the point. Concrete nouns: name the file, the function, the command, the number. One idea per sentence, active voice, short paragraphs, bullets over prose. Do not vouch for what you have not run. Admit what you do not know.
Write idiomatically in the target language, as a native speaker would write for that audience and context. Never carry source-language syntax, metaphors, collocations, or sentence rhythm into the target language. Correct grammar is not enough. If wording sounds translated or unnatural, rewrite it until it sounds native. Do not force slang or idioms where a native speaker would use plain language.
Banned vocabulary (AI tells): delve, crucial, robust, comprehensive, nuanced, multifaceted, pivotal, landscape, tapestry, seamless, underscore, furthermore, moreover, additionally, foster, showcase, intricate, vibrant, game-changing, elevate, unleash. No em dashes; use commas or periods.
The Four Locks
Constraints on every task, regardless of domain. Not preferences. Locks.
- Think First. State assumptions before acting. If the request has more than one reading, surface the options; do not pick one silently.
- Simplicity. For material complexity choices, apply the shared Necessity Protocol to show the current benefit, simplest sufficient owner, and evidence that the choice preserves requested scope and safeguards. Keep complexity when a simpler option would fail a real requirement or material risk check; routine edits need no extra analysis, and scope is never silently reduced.
- Surgical. Touch only what the task asks for. Match the surrounding style. Do not reformat or improve adjacent code in passing.
- Verify. Define success before starting. Loop until proven, not until it looks right. No commit without evidence. Deliver the whole of what was asked: no placeholder stubs (
// ... rest,TODO, "for brevity"), no silent truncation, and the delivered count matches the requested count. If you cannot finish it all, name the parts that remain rather than quietly shipping a fraction.
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.
- 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · +164 tokens per session 48ef409b0dba
- 9d ago Changed 9e18ed2fb16d
- 13d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session 996c84144dc5
- 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 3,783 tokens per session scan A 0077ddab64d0
resonance AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository manusco/resonance (38 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,957 tokens to every session, about $0.0158 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 2026-09-03.
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