What is attention-please AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for the attention-please project, a Bash script that speaks a project name and plays a sound while working in a Git repository.

Use them when modifying the script, its documentation, or tests, including checking Bash syntax and configuring the spoken name or sound.

They give contributors the expected file layout, commands, naming rules, and testing checks so changes remain consistent with the project.

How Mindgames/attention-please configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Mindgames/attention-please. 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/Mindgames/attention-please/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mindgames/attention-please

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mindgames/attention-please/agents-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mindgames/attention-please/agents-md)

Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 515 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 515 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00515	$0.00515
Opus 5.5	$0.00206	$0.00206
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00103	$0.00103
Haiku 4.5	$0.00052	$0.00052

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ba95c83cf814, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

attention-please 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 · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Project Structure & Module Organization

scripts/attention-please.sh is the main executable and contains all bash logic.
SKILL.md defines the Codex skill metadata and expected behavior.
README.md documents install and usage; keep it aligned with script behavior.
LICENSE and .gitignore live at the repo root.
If tests are added, place them under tests/ to keep the root tidy.

Build, Test, and Development Commands

This repo has no build step. Run the script directly:

scripts/attention-please.sh — run inside a git repo to infer the project name.
ATTENTION_PLEASE_PROJECT="quiz-juice" scripts/attention-please.sh — override the spoken name.
ATTENTION_PLEASE_SOUND="/System/Library/Sounds/Ping.aiff" scripts/attention-please.sh — override the sound file.
bash -n scripts/attention-please.sh — quick bash syntax check.

Coding Style & Naming Conventions

Bash only; keep #!/usr/bin/env bash and set -euo pipefail.
Indent with 2 spaces in conditional blocks.
Environment variables are uppercase with underscores (e.g., ATTENTION_PLEASE_PROJECT).
Script files use kebab-case names with a .sh suffix.

Testing Guidelines

There is no automated test suite yet.
Manual verification: run scripts/attention-please.sh inside a repo and confirm sound, speech, and fallback behavior.
If you add tests, document the framework and keep fixtures under tests/.

Configuration & Environment

macOS is required for afplay and say; the script prints a message if say is missing.
Run from a git repo so git remote get-url origin can resolve a project name, or set ATTENTION_PLEASE_PROJECT.
Avoid adding network or destructive operations; this script should remain side-effect light.

Agent Behavior

Use the attention-please script to play the alert at the end of each turn or whenever user input/confirmation is needed.

Commit & Pull Request Guidelines

Use short, imperative commit messages; current history shows Initial attention-please skill.
Keep changes scoped; update README.md and SKILL.md when behavior changes.
PRs should include a brief description, manual verification steps, and any OS-specific notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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.

1mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 515 tokens per session scan A ba95c83cf814

Subscribe to this mod's changes

attention-please AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Mindgames/attention-please (5 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 515 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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.

Claude Code codex-cli skills

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

attention-please: Instructions file for Codex