fluent AGENTS.md

A set of project instructions for coding agents working on Fluent, including how to plan work, make commits, and handle changes safely.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents follow the Fluent work lifecycle, write commit messages, and decide which project changes they may edit directly.
Why use it?
It gives agents a shared way to work so planning, delegated coding, reviews, branches, and merges do not become inconsistent or unsafe.

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/mrinalwadhwa/fluent/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrinalwadhwa/fluent

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,247 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,247 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 $0.01247 $0.01247
Opus 5 $0.00624 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00249 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00125 $0.00125

Measured 2d ago against content hash 67f2ac57e82c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fluent 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 2d 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 · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions for Coding Agents

These instructions define how Coding Agents should assist with this project.

Fluent workflow

Use the fluent to build the fluent. For non-trivial code, documentation, skill, expertise, or behavior changes, follow the fluent skill and go through the Fluent lifecycle: brief, behaviors, approach, plan, execution, review, and land.

Do not implement substantial product/code changes directly on main. Use Fluent Work Items and Attempts for delegated build work that needs isolation, reviewers, and merging. The Work model path is: Work Item, Attempt, Task, Workspace, and Merge Candidate.

Conversation agents may edit Fluent planning and memory state directly when they are collaborating with the user in the discussion loop: observations, briefs, behavior drafts, approaches, plans, lightweight curation, and similar durable notes. These edits are part of shaping work, not delegated execution.

Do not meddle with live execution state directly: branches, worktrees, statuses, session artifacts, and merging state belong to the execution system. Modify them only during explicit recovery with the user.

Keep main available as a stable integration branch for Work to rebase from and merge into. If conversation-state edits could overlap with active Work or merging, make them on a lightweight discussion branch or worktree and land them separately instead of dirtying main. Use fluent observations add to record future work and lessons. Open observations live as one file per entry under .fluent/observations/; resolved ones move to .fluent/observations/resolved/. Inspect with fluent observations list and fluent observations show <id>.

Commit messages

Subject line

  • Use imperative mood and active voice
  • Start with a verb: "Add", "Fix", "Update", "Remove", "Refactor"
  • Keep under 50 characters
  • Capitalize the first letter
  • Do not end with a period
  • Describe the change, not the process that led to it
    • Good: "Fix sandbox worktree binding"
    • Bad: "Run review and fix issues found"
    • Bad: "Address reviewer findings"
  • Use "Improve" over "Fix" when the change enhances something that was working but could be better. "Fix" implies it was broken.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 2d ago First seen · 157 lines · 1,247 tokens per session scan A 67f2ac57e82c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fluent AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mrinalwadhwa/fluent (84 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,247 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 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 2026-08-30.

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