Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to morganlinton/Albatross. 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/morganlinton/Albatross/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/morganlinton/AlbatrossWrote 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/morganlinton/albatross/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/morganlinton/albatross/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/morganlinton/albatross/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/morganlinton/albatross/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/morganlinton/albatross/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 | $0.00454 | $0.00454 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00182 | $0.00182 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00091 | $0.00091 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00045 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
Albatross 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Agent Instructions
General
- After finishing code or documentation updates, give the user a git commit message.
- Before pushing to
main, run the CI check suite:
Tests passing alone is not the release bar; clippy withcargo fmt --all -- --check cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings cargo test-D warningsmust pass.
Releases
Updating Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, README.md, and CHANGELOG.md is not
shipping a release. A version is released only after the vX.Y.Z tag exists,
the GitHub Release workflow succeeds, and macOS assets are published.
Full step-by-step: docs/RELEASE.md
Summary:
- Confirm with the user: land on
mainonly, or ship release X.Y.Z. - Prefer separate commits: feature work first, then
chore: release X.Y.Z. - Push
main, create and push tagvX.Y.Z, watch.github/workflows/release.yml. - Verify:
gh release view vX.Y.Z(release exists, macOS assets present). - Verify Homebrew tap:
morganlinton/homebrew-tap→Formula/albatross.rbmatches the version. Optionally testbrew upgrade albatross.
Do not mark release work complete until step 4 succeeds.
Scorecard (when changing /scorecard or ship quality scoring)
- Distinguish numeric score (0–100) from
counts(increments “quality PRs shipped” on the grid). If manual/scorecard close --url --testsis documented as a quality ship path, add tests thatcountsis true when evidence warrants it — not only that the score looks good. - Manual closes use
opened_by_gh: false; grid logic must align with--urland test evidence unless docs explicitly say manual closes are score-only.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 454 tokens per session scan A b48b673ec498
Albatross AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository morganlinton/Albatross (243 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 454 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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 2026-08-30.
Albatross AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albatross AGENTS.mdmorganlinton/Albatross | Instructions file | 243 | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 454 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |