vibe-harness: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

vibe-harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from myshkin451/vibe-harness. It costs 318 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide file for the Vibe Harness project, showing where its main skill, documentation, progress board, templates, and validation scripts are located.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find project instructions, understand working rules, and run the documented validation and audit commands.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a clear starting point and identifies the project's source-of-truth files and required checks.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is myshkin451/vibe-harness's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on vibe-harness 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 vibe-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to myshkin451/vibe-harness. 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/myshkin451/vibe-harness/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/myshkin451/vibe-harness

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 318 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 318 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00318 $0.00318
Opus 5.5 $0.00127 $0.00127
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c9abb5ab220e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibe-harness 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.

AGENTS.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Vibe Harness Repository Guide

Start Here

  • Main skill: skills/vibe-harness/SKILL.md
  • Source-of-truth docs: docs/index.md
  • Current state board: progress.md
  • Detailed skill references: skills/vibe-harness/references/
  • Copyable templates: skills/vibe-harness/assets/templates/
  • Repo validation: scripts/validate.py
  • Audit script: scripts/audit.py
  • Launch guidance: docs/launch-playbook.md

Project Goal

Vibe Harness turns a human project plan into a lightweight agent-ready repository harness for sustainable AI coding.

Working Rules

  • Keep the skill body concise; move deeper guidance to skills/vibe-harness/references/.
  • Keep templates generic, small, and easy to adapt.
  • Do not add heavyweight governance artifacts unless they solve a clear continuity or verification problem.
  • Prefer concrete paths, commands, and evidence over broad agent philosophy.
  • Do not make unverified adoption, benchmark, or compatibility claims.

Validation

Run before finishing changes:

python3 scripts/validate.py
python3 scripts/audit.py examples/expected-harness

If validation cannot run, explain why and record the likely impact.

Release Shape

The repo should stay installable as a skill package and understandable as an open-source project. README is for users; skills/vibe-harness/SKILL.md is for agents; docs/launch-playbook.md is for maintainers preparing public launch.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 318 tokens per session scan A c9abb5ab220e

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vibe-harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository myshkin451/vibe-harness (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 318 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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