moai-cowork: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

moai-cowork AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from modu-ai/moai-cowork. It costs 3,222 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of moai-adk AGENTS.md, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions that define a standing contract for coding agents working on the modu-ai/moai-cowork project. They cover evidence, verification, Git branches, shared checkouts, and worktrees, which are separate working directories for Git branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Verifying changes with project tools, reporting only observed results, managing branches and worktrees, and avoiding unsupported claims about completion or defects.
Why use it?
They require agents to support claims with actual checks and to follow safe collaboration rules when several changes share one checkout.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is modu-ai/moai-cowork's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on moai-cowork 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 moai-cowork configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to modu-ai/moai-cowork. 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/modu-ai/moai-cowork/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modu-ai/moai-cowork

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Sonnet 5 $0.00644 $0.00644
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Security

Grade A, and why

moai-cowork 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to moai-adk AGENTS.md — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AGENTS.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — standing contract for agents in this repository

Every clause here binds a turn regardless of which agent harness drives it. The file is self-sufficient: it assumes no other instruction file is loaded, and no nested AGENTS.md exists anywhere in this repository.

Budget warning. A personal ~/.codex/AGENTS.md joins the same merged chain and is consumed before this file, narrowing what the project's contract can carry. Overflow is dropped from the tail, silently — no warning, no stderr, exit 0. Clauses below are ordered most-critical-first for that reason.

Obligations are carried from .claude/rules/moai/** and CLAUDE.md, which remain the source of truth; compression removed rationale and incident records, never an obligation. Claude-only mechanisms (the question channel, subagent spawning, skills, session handoff) stay there.


1. Evidence and verification claims

No unobserved claim. An actor MUST NOT assert a verification, a completion, a defect / debt / drift, OR the premise underlying a recommendation it did not actually verify with the domain's mechanical tooling. Evidence absent is not evidence of success — nor of failure. The absence of a failure signal never establishes that a check passed; a text-pattern inference is a hypothesis, not a verified defect; a reference existing does not establish that the referenced capability is still live. Reachability is not justification.

Baseline-integrity attribution. Every verification claim MUST be attributed to an actually-measured baseline — the command that was run plus the output observed, in this run, against this tree. A figure carried over from another package, tree, or point in time is not a baseline; using it as a fresh measurement violates this. Anything unattributed is a Gap, not a Claim.

Evidence-bearing report format. Verification and completion reports SHOULD carry five sections, on every report and not only the first: Claim (what is asserted); Evidence (the command run plus its verbatim output — a summary is not evidence); Baseline-attribution (what it was measured against, in this run); Gaps (what was explicitly NOT observed — an empty Gaps section asserts nothing was left unobserved, which must itself be true); Residual-risk (what could still be wrong despite what was observed).

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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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moai-cowork AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository modu-ai/moai-cowork (298 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,222 tokens to every session, about $0.0161 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to moai-adk AGENTS.md, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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