ai-rpi-protocol: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

ai-rpi-protocol AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol. It costs 1,870 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions that require coding agents to follow the AI-RPI Protocol at the start of every conversation. The protocol sets a working level and guides how the agent analyzes and handles tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in the ai-rpi-protocol repository to select a protocol level, load the relevant guidance, and follow the required workflow for coding, reviews, questions, and planning.
Why use it?
It gives agent work a consistent startup process and prevents important repository rules from being skipped.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on ai-rpi-protocol itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ai-rpi-protocol configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol

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Grade A, and why

ai-rpi-protocol 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 9d 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 · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This repo uses AI RPI Protocol — engineering discipline for coding agents.

What to do on every new conversation

  1. Read this file
  2. Load /ai-rpi-protocol/skills/index.md — always, regardless of level
  3. Read the user's request
  4. Select the protocol level using the heuristic below
  5. Notify the user: "Using AI-RPI-Protocol (<level>)."
  6. Load the protocol file and adapters, then proceed

This startup sequence applies to all new conversations:

  • code changes
  • discussions
  • reviews
  • questions
  • brainstorming
  • repo or product strategy work

The protocol is not "for coding tasks only." It is the repo's mandatory startup behavior.

Hard gate:

  • The first substantive output in every new conversation must be Using AI-RPI-Protocol (<level>).
  • If that line has not been sent yet, stop and complete the startup sequence before giving advice, analysis, code, or repo findings.
  • Ultra-light is the cheap path for simple asks. Skipping the protocol is not.

Skills are loaded before anything else so the agent can detect reusable workflow matches from the first message. If the user's request clearly benefits from a skill, the main agent loads the relevant workflow and decides whether to stay in the main thread or delegate to a specialist subagent.

AGENTS.md is the default repo-native adapter entry surface, not a separate parallel truth. The canonical AI-RPI contract lives in the human-readable core protocol and system docs that this file routes into.

Do NOT ask the user if they want to use the protocol. Do NOT ask which level. Detect, inform, execute.

Level selection heuristic

Levels control how much protocol governance runs (ultralight / lite / full). Mode controls what the user wants (Explore / Discuss / Review / Patch / Feature / Build). Depth controls how much internal ceremony runs inside the loop (minimal / balanced / full). Persona controls communication style, emphasis, browsing tendency, and default output shape.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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.

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ai-rpi-protocol AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MiguelAxcar/ai-rpi-protocol (37 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,870 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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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