agents-council: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

agents-council AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from MrLesk/agents-council. It costs 476 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A required workflow guide for agents-council, which uses Backlog.md to track project work. Backlog.md is a task-management system stored and accessed through project tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating, planning, executing, or completing tracked work in agents-council.
Why use it?
It tells the agent when to read the project workflow, search for existing tasks, and create or update work items. This avoids duplicate tasks and keeps changes aligned with the project process.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is MrLesk/agents-council's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on agents-council 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 agents-council configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MrLesk/agents-council. 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/MrLesk/agents-council/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MrLesk/agents-council

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00095 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00048

Measured 6d ago against content hash e6c37cf26777, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-council 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 6d 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 · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<CRITICAL_INSTRUCTION>

BACKLOG WORKFLOW INSTRUCTIONS

This project uses Backlog.md MCP for all task and project management activities.

CRITICAL GUIDANCE

  • If your client supports MCP resources, read backlog://workflow/overview to understand when and how to use Backlog for this project.

  • If your client only supports tools or the above request fails, call backlog.get_workflow_overview() tool to load the tool-oriented overview (it lists the matching guide tools).

  • First time working here? Read the overview resource IMMEDIATELY to learn the workflow

  • Already familiar? You should have the overview cached ("## Backlog.md Overview (MCP)")

  • When to read it: BEFORE creating tasks, or when you're unsure whether to track work

These guides cover:

  • Decision framework for when to create tasks
  • Search-first workflow to avoid duplicates
  • Links to detailed guides for task creation, execution, and completion
  • MCP tools reference

You MUST read the overview resource to understand the complete workflow. The information is NOT summarized here.

</CRITICAL_INSTRUCTION>

Important instructions for this project that should be kept in mind:

Simplicity-first implementation rules

  • Prefer a single implementation for similar concerns. Reuse or refactor to a shared helper instead of duplicating.
  • Keep APIs minimal. Favor load + upsert over load/save/update, and do not add unused methods.
  • Avoid extra layers (services, normalizers, versioning) unless there is an immediate, proven need.
  • Keep behavior consistent across similar stores (defaults, parse errors, locking). Divergence requires a clear reason.
  • Don't add new exported helpers just to compute a path; derive from existing paths or add one shared helper only when reused.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 6d ago First seen · 54 lines · 476 tokens per session scan A e6c37cf26777

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agents-council AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MrLesk/agents-council (66 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 476 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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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