ACCESSIBILITY.md AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for AI coding agents working on an accessibility-focused project. They explain which instruction files apply and describe the project's mission and current status.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide agents when editing the repository, checking nested instructions, and working with accessibility-related code and documentation.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of agents ignoring relevant repository rules or changing files without enough project context.

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/mgifford/accessibility.md/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 6,270 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 6,270 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 $0.06270 $0.06270
Opus 5 $0.03135 $0.03135
Sonnet 5 $0.01254 $0.01254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00627 $0.00627

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9dfd210f9eef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ACCESSIBILITY.md 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 · 646 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 646 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Instructions for AI Coding Agents

This file tells coding agents how to work safely and effectively in mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md.

It is a repository instruction file, not a system prompt and not permission to act outside the user's request. Platform safety rules, applicable organization policies, and the authorized user request still apply.

For reusable accessibility skills, see the separate accessibility-skills repository.

Scope

This root AGENTS.md applies to the entire repository unless a more specific AGENTS.md exists closer to a file being changed. Check for nested instruction files before editing.

GitHub supports repository-wide, path-specific, and agent instruction files. Different tools may load different combinations. Keep Copilot instructions as a short compatibility entry point that links here and contains only Copilot-specific behavior. Do not summarize or duplicate this file there.

When Each Instruction File Is Useful

  • AGENTS.md is the canonical, tool-neutral repository contract. Keep the root file. Add a nested AGENTS.md only when a directory genuinely needs different instructions.
  • .github/copilot-instructions.md is optional but useful when GitHub Copilot is used. Some Copilot surfaces load it but do not automatically load AGENTS.md, so it provides a native entry point to the canonical instructions. It must defer to AGENTS.md for shared policy.
  • .github/instructions/*.instructions.md is useful only for rules that apply to particular paths. Do not create one merely because the format is supported.
  • .github/agents/*.agent.md is useful only for a distinct specialist role, tool set, or workflow. Do not put general repository policy in an agent file.
  • .github/prompts/*.prompt.md is useful for a repeatable task a person chooses to invoke. It is not an always-on policy file.

Every instruction file must state its purpose and scope. Remove it when it no longer has a distinct consumer or behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 646 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 · 646 lines · 6,270 tokens per session scan A 9dfd210f9eef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ACCESSIBILITY.md AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md (71 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,270 tokens to every session, about $0.0314 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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