mco AGENTS.md

A set of repository instructions for coding agents. It tells them to read existing code first, think through the task, keep solutions simple, and make narrowly targeted edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide an agent while modifying an existing codebase, especially before choosing an approach or editing a file.
Why use it?
It helps prevent guesses, unnecessary rewrites, and code that does not match the project's existing style or tests.

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 2,891 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.
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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 $0.02891 $0.02891
Opus 5 $0.01445 $0.01445
Sonnet 5 $0.00578 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00289 $0.00289

Measured 3d ago against content hash f3f4b6e80c22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mco 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

此文件之所以存在,是因为 LLM 在编写代码时会犯可预测的错误。不是随机的错误,而是同样的错误反复出现。我见过足够多次,因此把它们记录下来。

这些不是建议,而是规则。遵守它们,你将产出无需重写的代码;忽视它们,你将产出看起来 impressive 但在生产环境中会出问题的代码。

1. 先阅读再编写

LLM 产生糟糕代码的最大单一来源,是在编写新代码之前没有阅读现有的代码库。你看到一个任务,就根据训练数据中的模式开始生成代码,这几乎总是错误的。

在编写任何内容之前:

  • 阅读你即将修改的文件。不是浏览,而是认真阅读
  • 查看项目中其他类似功能的实现方式。如果有 API 路由的模式,就遵循该模式。如果已有工具函数能完成你所需工作的一半,就使用它。
  • 检查文件顶部的 import 语句,它们会告诉你这个项目实际使用了哪些库。不要在项目到处使用 fetch 的地方引入 axios;不要在项目使用原生方法的地方引入 lodash。
  • 查看测试文件,它们会告诉你预期的行为是什么,而不是你认为它应该是什么。

这里的失败模式很明显:你生成了“正确”的代码,但它与所在的代码库完全格格不入。它能运行,但看起来像是另一个人写的(因为确实是另一个实体写的)。然后人类要么重写它以匹配项目风格,要么永远忍受不一致性。两者都很糟糕。

如果你不确定项目中某件事的做法,就直接说出来。“我在代码库中没有看到 X 的模式,应该遵循 Y 中的做法还是采用不同的方式?”总是比猜测更好。

2. 先思考再编码

在弄清楚你到底要做什么之前,不要开始编写代码。这听起来显而易见,但却是最常见的失败模式。

实际表现如下:

陈述你的假设。 如果用户说“添加认证”,这可能意味着 session cookies、JWT、OAuth、basic auth 或其他五种方式。不要默默选择一种。要说:“我假设你想要基于 JWT 的认证,带 refresh token,并存储在 httpOnly cookies 中。如果需要其他方式,请告诉我。”如果你错了,只损失 10 秒;如果你默默猜错,就损失一小时。

说明权衡。 几乎每种实现选择都有权衡。如果你添加缓存,就说:“这会用内存换取速度,并引入缓存失效的问题,我们现在需要考虑。”用户可能会说“其实我不想增加这个复杂度。”最好在写 200 行代码之前就知道。

如果存在多种方法,简要呈现它们。 不要五种,两到三种即可,并给出推荐。“有两种方法。方案 A 更简单,但不处理边缘情况 X。方案 B 处理所有情况,但会增加对 Z 的依赖。除非你预期 X 真的会发生,否则我推荐 A。”

如果有困惑,就停下来。 不要用听起来合理的代码来填补困惑。在不理解需求时生成代码,结果是代码能通过随意审查,但在关键时刻会失败。直接说出困惑之处并提问。

3. 简洁性

编写解决问题的最小代码量。不是理论上能解决问题的代码,而是当前真正解决这个具体问题的最小代码量。

过度设计的本能很强,要抵抗它。以下是实际中的过度设计表现:

过早抽象。 你只需要发送一种类型的邮件,却写了一个 EmailService 类,带策略模式支持多种提供商、模板引擎和重试策略。而用户想要的只是 sendWelcomeEmail(user)。先写那个函数。如果以后需要更多,他们会说的。

(示例对比代码已省略,保持原英文示例清晰)

推测性错误处理。 你给所有东西都套上 try/catch 来处理不可能发生的错误。你对来自自己代码且上游已验证的输入进行验证。你对永远不会为 null 的值添加 null 检查。每行错误处理代码都是别人需要阅读和理解的。只处理实际可能发生的错误。

不必要的可配置性。 你把批处理大小做成参数,把重试次数做成可配置的,为永远不会变化的东西添加环境变量。配置不是免费的。每个配置选项都是别人需要做出的决定和正确设置的值。在有真实理由之前,先硬编码。

无用的灵活性。 只有一个实现的接口、只有一个子类的抽象基类、只用一种类型实例化的泛型。这些东西有成本(认知开销、间接层、更多需要导航的文件),在第二个实现真正出现之前没有任何收益。

简洁性的测试:把你的代码展示给不熟悉项目的人看。如果他们问“为什么这样抽象?”而你的回答是“以防我们需要……”,那你就过度设计了。“以防我们需要”不是需求,它是对未来的猜测,而对未来的猜测通常是错的。

4. 外科手术式的修改

当编辑现有代码时,你的 diff 应该尽可能小。每修改一行代码,都可能引入 bug、需要别人审查,并且会永远出现在 git blame 中。

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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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mco AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mco-org/mco (507 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,891 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 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.

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