Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to maxanatsko/agentic-voice. 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/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxanatsko/agentic-voiceWrote 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/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/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/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/maxanatsko/agentic-voice/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 | $0.00866 | $0.00866 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00346 | $0.00346 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00173 | $0.00173 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00087 | $0.00087 |
Grade A, and why
agentic-voice 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Guidelines
Purpose
This repository provides a minimal local voice-output capability for coding agents, speaking through a local TTS backend over a fixed HTTP contract. The bundled backend (bridge/) wraps Kokoro-82M via FluidAudio; it is not an NVIDIA product. A macOS menu bar app (bridge/Sources/AgenticVoice/) hosts that backend and offers settings, voice downloads and client installation.
Engineering principles
Separation of concerns
Keep boundaries explicit:
- MCP code handles MCP concerns only.
- CLI code handles process input/output only.
VoiceServiceowns the speak use case and user-facing speech policy.- TTS backend HTTP details stay inside the TTS client (
src/tts/tts-client.ts). - Audio playback stays inside the audio module.
- Configuration parsing stays in
config.ts. bridge/is a separate Swift package with its own toolchain; Node code must depend on it only through the documented HTTP contract, never by assuming its internals.- In
bridge/,TTSBridgeCoreowns the HTTP routes, model preparation and voice installation; theTTSBridgeexecutable and the app only run it. - The macOS app is presentation only. It hosts
TTSBridgeCore, writes the shared settings file, and runs the bundled Node scripts (install-clients, the CLI for previews) on the Node runtime it bundles; it never edits client files or calls the TTS backend itself. - Client config editing stays in
src/clients/(pure text edits inconfig-edit.ts, file handling inclients.ts). ~/Library/Application Support/AgenticVoice/config.jsonis the only persisted setting.config.tsdefines its format; the app reads and writes onlyvoiceandspeed, applying the same rules. The app speaks (voice preview) only through the bundled CLI, never by calling the synthesis endpoint itself; its only HTTP request is the health check in the bridge startup protocol.
Do not let transport-specific objects leak into application code.
KISS
Prefer direct code over patterns. A small function or class is better than a framework, registry, factory hierarchy, or dependency injection container when there is only one implementation.
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.
- yesterday Changed · +4 lines · +276 tokens per session 3808c6366772
- 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 590 tokens per session scan A 12daa0f452ba
agentic-voice AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository maxanatsko/agentic-voice (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 866 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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 2026-08-31.
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