atelier AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for Atelier, a development toolkit that organizes reusable agent skills into folders with standard instruction files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, editing, or reviewing skills in the Atelier repository.
Why use it?
It explains where skills belong, how their metadata is written, and how different kinds of development work are grouped.

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 514 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 514 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.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00514 $0.00514
Opus 5 $0.00257 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00103 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00051 $0.00051

Measured 3d ago against content hash 89943c40b829, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atelier 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 3d 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 · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance to AI agents when working with code in this repository.

Repository Overview

This is Atelier - a personal development toolkit for spec-driven development, deep thinking, and code quality.

Skills Structure

Skills are located in the skills/ directory. Each skill is a self-contained module with:

skills/{category}-{name}/
├── SKILL.md           # Main skill definition
└── references/        # Optional additional context
    ├── topic-a.md
    └── topic-b.md

Skill File Format

Skills use YAML frontmatter for metadata:

---
name: skill-name
description: When to use this skill (AI reads this to auto-load)
user-invocable: false  # or true if user can call directly
---

Skills are auto-invoked based on description match to current context.

Namespace Philosophy

Skills are organized into three namespaces based on their role:

spec: - Workflow Skills

Sequential, state-transforming steps that produce an approved plan and may produce artifacts.

  • Process-oriented: Each skill is a step in a workflow
  • User-invoked: Called explicitly by user or previous skill
  • Output-producing: Each produces conversational or persisted output
  • Disciplined: Must be followed exactly, not adapted

oracle: - Thinking Skills

Analytical, knowledge-providing skills that inform decisions.

  • Knowledge-oriented: Provide patterns, principles, guidance
  • Context-driven: Auto-invoked when relevant context detected
  • Adaptable: Principles adapted to specific situation
  • Supportive: Inform workflow decisions, don't produce artifacts

code: - Utility Skills

Tools and helpers for specific tasks.

  • Task-oriented: Solve specific problems
  • User-invoked: Called when needed
  • Standalone: Can be used independently or within workflow

Namespace Semantics

Namespace Type Invocation Output Flexibility
spec: Process User/previous skill Plan/artifact Follow exactly
oracle: Knowledge Context-driven Guidance Adapt to context
code: Utility User Result Use as needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 3d ago First seen · 82 lines · 514 tokens per session scan A 89943c40b829

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atelier AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (44 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 514 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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 2026-08-30.