Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to mickeyyaya/evolve-loop. 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/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickeyyaya/evolve-loopWrote 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/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/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/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mickeyyaya/evolve-loop/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 | $0.05486 | $0.05486 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02194 | $0.02194 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01097 | $0.01097 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00549 | $0.00549 |
Grade A, and why
evolve-loop 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Cross-CLI Canonical Instructions
Read this file first if you are an AI agent that works in this repository. The agent can be Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity/agy, Ollama, Gemini CLI or a generic agent. This file is the source of truth for the cross-CLI invariants. The CLI-specific runtime details are in companion files: CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md. All three files refer back to this document.
Operating policy (canonical): docs/operations/operating-policy.md has the environment-independent process rules. Each rule has the incident evidence behind it. The rules cover:
- the pipeline-integrity procedure (console-first, maximum reasoning);
- the queue/routing authority;
- the engineering standards;
- the failure-handling contract;
- the release policy.
A clean environment gets the full policy from the repo alone. Session memory is only an advisory mirror.
What evolve-loop is
evolve-loop is a development pipeline that evolves itself. It orchestrates specialized phase agents (Intent, Scout, Triage, TDD, Builder, Auditor, and retro/memo). The agents go through a fixed spine in each cycle (Intent → Scout → Triage → [TDD] → Build → Audit → Ship → Learn). Since v22.27.0, a code cycle also runs the code-review phase between Build and Audit. It runs in shadow and is not a gate (ADR-0124). Tier-1 kernel hooks enforce these properties:
- the phase order;
- role-scoped write paths;
- atomic ship semantics;
- ledger SHA verification;
- tamper-evident, hash-chained records (v8.37+).
Runtime note (Go-only): The Go binary (
go/bin/evolve) is the only runtime entrypoint. The Go-only consolidation removed the bashlegacy/scripts/tree. There is no bash fallback. Each operation below is a nativeevolve <subcommand>or a function ingo/internal/.... For the history of the bash→Go port, see docs/migration-from-bash.md.
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.
- 3d ago Changed · +4 lines · +78 tokens per session bf6096bc0837
- 9d ago Changed · +4 lines · +146 tokens per session 98a771310151
- 12d ago Changed · +4 lines · +175 tokens per session ed8ca88b8be5
- 13d ago Changed · +59 lines · +255 tokens per session a121451f3865
- 20d ago Changed · +6 lines · +164 tokens per session f6c84711b603
- 24d ago Changed · +57 tokens per session 0977e8658ab6
- 25d ago Changed · +3 lines · +108 tokens per session 914f3ef3d1ba
- 1mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 4,503 tokens per session scan A 7e080617b851
evolve-loop AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/evolve-loop (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 5,486 tokens to every session, about $0.0219 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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