yc-partner AGENTS.md

yc-partner AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from morajabi/yc-partner. It costs 2,397 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for yc-partner, a knowledge pack and AI skill for founders applying to Y Combinator, a startup accelerator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when maintaining the project, reviewing YC applications, preparing for interviews, answering application questions, or finding relevant YC resources.
Why use it?
They define which project documents are authoritative and keep the founder-facing skill focused on useful, publicly appropriate advice.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/morajabi/yc-partner/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/morajabi/yc-partner

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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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

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Opus 5 $0.01198 $0.01198
Sonnet 5 $0.00479 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00240 $0.00240

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6f1ab928213c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yc-partner 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 4d 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 · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Source Of Truth

The root README.md is the product source of truth. If lower-level scaffolding disagrees with it, update the skill and repo structure to match the README.

Goal

yc-partner is a public, open source knowledge pack and agent skill for founders applying to Y Combinator.

It should help users:

  • Answer pre-application YC questions and doubts before they finish writing.
  • Review YC applications with fresh eyes.
  • Improve clarity, specificity, and application hygiene.
  • Estimate whether the application is likely to earn an interview.
  • Prepare for YC interviews.
  • Verify advice against YC resources, YC-affiliated material, examples, and founder stories.
  • Find relevant YC resources to read or watch.

Skill Boundary

The skill is the artifact. skills/yc-partner/SKILL.md is for founders using the installed skill, not for maintainers building the corpus.

Keep runtime skill instructions focused on:

  • How to answer pre-application questions and doubts.
  • How to review applications.
  • How to prepare founders for interviews.
  • What sources to trust.
  • How to find bundled resources.
  • Tone, posture, required vs optional behavior, and dos/don'ts.

Keep collection, transcription, scraping, indexing, and guide-generation instructions outside the runtime skill, in AGENTS.md, README.md, scripts/README.md, or maintainer docs.

Public-Safe Boundary

Do not include:

  • Private YC applications unless explicitly contributed for public use.
  • Personal contact information, private founder profiles, emails, phone numbers, screenshots, internal notes, or unpublished drafts.
  • Private anecdotes unless rewritten as approved public examples.
  • Secrets, credentials, .env files, auth cookies, browser session data, or private API outputs.
  • Raw unprocessed HTML, downloaded videos, audio files, screenshots, caption JSON, or temporary scraper outputs.

If a file contains private information or application-specific content, keep it out of yc-partner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 4d ago First seen · 187 lines · 2,397 tokens per session scan A 6f1ab928213c

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yc-partner AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository morajabi/yc-partner (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,397 tokens to every session, about $0.0120 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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