Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to michael-L-i/cadence-code. 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/michael-L-i/cadence-code/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-L-i/cadence-codeWrote 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/michael-l-i/cadence-code/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/michael-l-i/cadence-code/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/michael-l-i/cadence-code/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/michael-l-i/cadence-code/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/michael-l-i/cadence-code/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 | $0.02720 | $0.02720 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01088 | $0.01088 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00544 | $0.00544 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00272 | $0.00272 |
Grade A, and why
cadence-code 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 — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Guide
Project Overview
cadence-code is a Codex, Claude Code, and Antigravity plugin: a fully local
voice companion for Apple Silicon. Its stdio MCP process owns local TTS and STT models directly
while a voice conversation is active. There is no HTTP daemon or local
summarization model; the host coding agent provides the exact text sent to TTS.
MLX is the speech inference backend, not a second reasoning layer. Speech
models run through mlx-audio; some TTS implementations reuse mlx-lm cache
and sampling utilities internally, but Cadence Code never loads a local
reasoning or summarization model.
There is no passive narration. Users explicitly choose Start Talking with
$start-talking or /skills in Codex, /cadence-code:start-talking in
Claude Code, or /start-talking in Antigravity:
- On a new install, the host calls
voice_models, shows the fixed first-run orientation, and persists its returned Pocket TTS and Parakeet 110M defaults throughvoice_configurewithout pausing for model selection. - The host calls
voice_start, which preflights audio access and then loads the selected TTS and STT models in the background. The host pollsvoice_statusuntilreadyis true -- so a first-run model download never outlives any host's MCP tool deadline -- then speaks a greeting viavoice_speak. - The host calls
voice_listento capture the user's reply via the mic, then acts on the transcript with its normal tools -- silently, no play-by-play. - After interrupting a host turn with Escape, the user can invoke the explicit
interrupt workflow.
voice_interruptsilences current audio, opens a fresh capture, and returns added guidance without unloading the models. - The host calls
voice_speakagain with a short spoken-style update, and the loop repeats until the user says something like "stop" or two consecutivevoice_listencalls time out. - At that point the host calls
voice_stop, which drops both providers, clears the MLX cache, and releases the active-session lock. If the host session ends unexpectedly, MCP process exit releases its memory and lock. - The explicit
$wrap-upor/cadence-code:wrap-upworkflow gives the same clean ending on demand, allowing a short goodbye to finish before release.
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 · 213 lines · 2,720 tokens per session scan A 45382dc6817b
cadence-code AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository michael-L-i/cadence-code (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,720 tokens to every session, about $0.0109 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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