Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to mcqua007/agents-skeleton. 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/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mcqua007/agents-skeletonWrote 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/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/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/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mcqua007/agents-skeleton/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 | $0.00812 | $0.00812 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00325 | $0.00325 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00162 | $0.00162 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00081 | $0.00081 |
Grade A, and why
agents-skeleton 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 1mo 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 — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file is the universal entry point for all AI coding agents. It serves as a table of contents — not an encyclopedia. Keep it under ~100 lines. Point to deeper docs for detail.
Project Overview
This repository uses an agent-first development workflow. All coding agents should treat this file as their starting map and navigate to specific docs as needed for deeper context.
Quick Reference
# Build
# TODO: Add build command
# Test
# TODO: Add test command
# Lint
# TODO: Add lint command
# Format
# TODO: Add format command
Architecture
See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full codemap, module layout, dependency directions, and architectural invariants.
Documentation Map
All deep knowledge lives in docs/. Navigate by topic:
| Document | Purpose |
|---|---|
| docs/DESIGN.md | UI/UX design conventions and patterns |
| docs/FRONTEND.md | Frontend-specific guidance and component patterns |
| docs/PLANS.md | Current priorities and high-level roadmap |
| docs/PRODUCT_SENSE.md | Product principles, user empathy, domain context |
| docs/QUALITY_SCORE.md | Quality grades by domain and architectural layer |
| docs/RELIABILITY.md | Reliability requirements, SLOs, error handling |
| docs/SECURITY.md | Security guidelines, auth patterns, threat model |
Deeper Resources
| Directory | Purpose |
|---|---|
| docs/design-docs/ | Design documents with verification status |
| docs/exec-plans/ | Execution plans (active, completed, tech debt) |
| docs/product-specs/ | Product specifications and requirements |
| docs/references/ | External reference docs, llms.txt files |
| docs/generated/ | Auto-generated documentation (schemas, etc.) |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 812 tokens per session scan A c945b9af8d33
agents-skeleton AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mcqua007/agents-skeleton (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 812 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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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