Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to mmnto-ai/totem. 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/mmnto-ai/totem/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mmnto-ai/totemWrote 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/mmnto-ai/totem/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mmnto-ai/totem/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mmnto-ai/totem/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/mmnto-ai/totem/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mmnto-ai/totem/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 | $0.01233 | $0.01233 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00493 | $0.00493 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00247 | $0.00247 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00123 | $0.00123 |
Grade C, and why
totem AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- totem-ignore-next-line --> How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Totem: Agent Instructions
Canonical source of truth for how AI coding agents behave in this repository. Following the AGENTS.md convention, mmnto-ai/totem consolidates tool-specific instruction files into this single AGENTS.md; thin per-tool redirect files point each tool here. Team-only instructions for this repository ride a private doctrine package and are never committed here.
What Totem is
Totem is a local-first toolkit that keeps AI-agent work queryable, enforceable, and derivable as plain files in your codebase. Lead with enforcement (totem lint and the gate engine), not recall; derivation (totem status, totem orient) and the queryable index serve it.
Session start
- Run
totem statusfor health. - Never guess architecture. Before modifying a core system, run
totem search <system>. - Before writing code, call
search_knowledgedescribing what you are changing. - Do not push speculative fixes: run
totem lintlocally and front-load every check before the first push. - Cold start (no session hook injected orientation): derive it with
totem orient, after/signon's seat and assignment-mail steps where that skill is installed.
Working rules
- Before pushing: your formatter, then
totem lint(the enforcement floor), thentotem reviewwhere configured (advisory lanes, never a merge gate). - After a PR merges:
totem lesson extract <pr> --yes. - Never bypass a quality gate without a ticket. No
--no-verify,totem-ignore,eslint-disable,@ts-ignore, skipped tests, or ignore patterns added to pacify CI; a suppression carries a ticket reference. - After roughly 15 turns of code changes: run
totem status, re-query the knowledge index for the system you are modifying, and state your architectural assumption. - Controller, not implementer. Delegate build-and-test cycles to background agents; keep this thread for decisions.
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 Changed · +35 tokens per session 24afa3b3de8f
- 1mo ago Changed · -11 lines · -427 tokens per session baf521ef1f22
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +40 tokens per session 63e205a4e9fc
- 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 1,585 tokens per session scan C 65e6473cef45
totem AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mmnto-ai/totem (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,233 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
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).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
vscode model-prompts.instructions.md
Model-specific prompt authoring and registry guidelines.