wicked-garden: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

wicked-garden AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 753 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository instruction file that points contributors to the canonical instructions for wicked-garden. Those instructions cover conventions, architecture, evidence handling, delegation, code search, memory, storage, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Read it when working in wicked-garden, then follow the linked .claude/CLAUDE.md instructions for implementation, review, architecture, or repository investigation.
Why use it?
It gives different coding tools one shared source of truth instead of duplicating or drifting project rules across files.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

This is mikeparcewski/wicked-garden's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on wicked-garden 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 wicked-garden configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. 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/mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mikeparcewski/wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 753 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 753 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 5.1 $0.00753 $0.00753
Opus 5.5 $0.00301 $0.00301
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00151 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00075 $0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bc41448b27c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wicked-garden 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.

AGENTS.md · 18 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 18 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Instructions

The canonical agent instructions for this repository live in .claude/CLAUDE.md. Read that file — it is the single source of truth for how to work in wicked-garden: conventions, v11/v12 architecture, evidence-re-derivation, delegation, code search, memory, storage, and security.

Why (identity): see ETHOS.md for what wicked-garden believes / refuses / optimizes for. CLAUDE.md is how to act; ETHOS.md is why.

This file is intentionally a thin pointer so there is exactly one source of truth. Other AI coding tools (Codex, Cursor, Aider, OpenCode, Zed/ACP, …) that read AGENTS.md: follow the link above to .claude/CLAUDE.md.

Cross-CLI skills (portability rule) — mirrored from .claude/CLAUDE.md

A skill's text must work wherever it is installed — Claude Code (plugin), Codex, OpenCode, Pi and Antigravity (skills-only, flat by name) and wicked-crew's snapshot. Therefore, under skills/: (1) refer to your own files by a path relative to the skill's base directory (refs/plan.md), never ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}, ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} or ../; (2) refer to another skill by its name (wicked-garden-qe, "its refs/review.md"), never by a filesystem path — the installer lays skills out flat by name; every wicked-garden-<x> token must resolve to a declared skill, and an identifier that merely looks like one (an evaluator id, a sibling plugin) is marked right after the token: `wicked-garden-x` <!-- not-a-skill --> (token-scoped — a marker elsewhere on the line exempts nothing); (3) run shared runtime code only through the launcher: wicked-garden run scripts/<path> [args] (or wicked-garden path <dir>, wicked-garden python -c …), include the standard ## Runtime block once (exact text in tests/portability_rules.garden.json; the shared rules crew also enforces are the vendored canonical tests/portability_rules.json), and give a manual alternative for hosts without it; (4) write harness features with a fallback: "invoke skill X (Skill tool) — otherwise open its SKILL.md and follow it inline", "ask the user (AskUserQuestion where available, else plain text and wait)"; (5) context: fork and allowed-tools are Claude Code loading hints, fine to keep — say in the body what to do when the harness cannot fork. Hooks (hooks/) are Claude-plugin mechanics and keep ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}. tests/test_skill_portability.py fails the build on any violation; run python3 scripts/wg/portability_codemod.py --dry-run to see the fix. The launcher lives once in scripts/wicked-garden.mjs (twins scripts/wicked-garden, scripts/wicked-garden.cmd; npm bin wicked-garden run|python|path|root|doctor); root order WICKED_GARDEN_ROOT → CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT → its own package; it never writes under the root.

Read the full file on GitHub · 18 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. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +557 tokens per session bc41448b27c5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A fe10c62e668d

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wicked-garden AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 753 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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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