agent-kit AGENTS.md

A set of project instructions describing the repository, its folders, development setup, and important commands. AGENTS.md is a file that tells coding agents how to work in a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the repository layout, set up development tools, and find conventions for skills, agents, MCP servers, and infrastructure.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the project context and local rules needed to navigate the codebase consistently.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/mitodl/agent-kit/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitodl/agent-kit

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 2,267 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,267 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02267 $0.02267
Opus 5 $0.01133 $0.01133
Sonnet 5 $0.00453 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00227 $0.00227

Measured yesterday against content hash c36065c382b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-kit 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 yesterday.

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 · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Project Overview

A shared toolkit of AI agent utilities for the mitodl team: reusable skills, custom agent definitions, MCP server configurations, and sample agent configs. The primary artifact is a catalog of SKILL.md files, plus MCP server registrations, installed declaratively via agent-config-kit (agent-kit) and this repo's agent-config.toml manifest.

Repository Layout

skills/          # Reusable skills (SKILL.md per skill), organized by category
  python/        # uv, cyclopts CLI conventions
  dagster/       # dg-based code location structure
  infrastructure/ # Pulumi IaC, Vault K8s auth
  containers/    # Docker image builds with uv
  workflow/      # validate-before-commit, skill authoring
  process/       # GitHub issues/PRs/RFCs, standup, dependency management
custom-agents/   # Agent definitions for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
mcp/             # MCP server install helpers and config snippets
  servers/witan/         # Graph-structured memory MCP server (Python)
  servers/witan-code/    # Tree-sitter code-graph MCP server (Python)
  servers/toolhive-swe/  # ToolHive SWE MCP config (per-tier: ci/qa/prod)
packages/        # Standalone, independently-versioned Python libraries
  agent-config-kit/      # Cross-agent MCP/skill/hook registration library
  agent-kit/              # PyPI meta-package (ol-agent-kit): agent-config-kit[cli] + witan + witan-code
configs/         # Sample / reference agent configurations
docs/            # The witan-context documentation site (Zensical -> Read the Docs)
  getting-started/  # Tutorials (handwritten)
  guides/           # How-to (mostly MIRRORED from the packages by bin/gen_docs.py)
  reference/        # GENERATED from live code by bin/gen_docs.py -- never edit
  explanation/      # Architecture, memory model, coordination, ADRs
  internals/        # Historical design docs and implementation specs

Dev Setup

No build step for skills — they are plain Markdown. For the MCP servers:

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. yesterday First seen · 110 lines · 2,267 tokens per session scan A c36065c382b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-kit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mitodl/agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 2,267 tokens to every session, about $0.0113 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 2026-08-31.

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