OpenBoringBar AGENTS.md

OpenBoringBar AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from nagisa77/OpenBoringBar. It costs 1,735 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for OpenBoringBar, an open-source macOS taskbar for multiple displays. They describe its goals, supported software, and folder layout for contributors and coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing OpenBoringBar code, documentation, or scripts. It covers per-display bars, running-app visibility, app switching, macOS 14+, Swift 5, SwiftUI, AppKit, and project generation.
Why use it?
Agents working in an unfamiliar repository may otherwise miss its product priorities, platform requirements, or project structure. These instructions set the expected technical and product context.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

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npx agentmods add instructions/nagisa77/openboringbar/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nagisa77/OpenBoringBar

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade A, and why

OpenBoringBar 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 · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenBoringBar Agent Guide

AI collaboration entry for OpenBoringBar. Goal: deliver a stable bottom taskbar experience for multi-display macOS users in a transparent and contributor-friendly codebase.

Mission

OpenBoringBar is an open-source implementation inspired by boringbar.app. Priority is reliability of core behavior before visual polish.

Product Direction

  1. Keep focus on BoringBar-like core workflow:
    • per-display bars
    • running app visibility
    • app switching
  2. Optimize for real usability and stability first.
  3. Build in public so contributors can inspect and extend behavior.

Technical Baseline

  1. Platform: macOS 14+
  2. Language: Swift 5
  3. UI stack: SwiftUI + AppKit + ApplicationServices
  4. Project generation: CocoaPods (pod install maintains project/workspace)

Repository Structure

.
├── OpenBoringBar/
│   ├── App/
│   ├── Core/
│   │   ├── Application/
│   │   ├── Bar/
│   │   ├── DisplayBar/
│   │   ├── Domain/Models/
│   │   └── Infrastructure/
│   └── Resources/
├── scripts/
│   ├── bootstrap.sh
│   └── generate_xcodeproj.rb
├── docs/
├── .agents/
│   ├── AGENTS.md
│   ├── skills/
│   ├── rules/
│   ├── mappings/
│   ├── docs/ai/
│   ├── checklists/
│   ├── templates/
│   └── examples/
└── AGENTS.md

.agents Knowledge Base

Use .agents/ as the practical operating handbook.

  1. rules/: hard boundaries and coding constraints
  2. skills/: executable workflows (delivery/build/regression)
  3. mappings/: machine-readable ownership and validation mapping
  4. docs/ai/: deeper technical notes and troubleshooting
  5. checklists/: done criteria
  6. templates/: feature spec and PR summary templates
  7. examples/: concrete handoff examples

Recommended read order:

  1. AGENTS.md (this file)
  2. .agents/rules/*.md
  3. .agents/skills/feature-delivery.md
  4. .agents/skills/build-and-validate.md
  5. .agents/checklists/change-done-checklist.md

Core Commands

# Full bootstrap + build (required after every code change)
./scripts/bootstrap.sh

# Regenerate Xcode project from source globs (only when needed)
ruby scripts/generate_xcodeproj.rb
pod install

# Manual build command
xcodebuild \
  -project OpenBoringBar.xcodeproj \
  -scheme OpenBoringBar \
  -configuration Debug \
  -sdk macosx \
  -destination 'platform=macOS' \
  -derivedDataPath .build/DerivedData \
  build

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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 · 245 lines · 1,735 tokens per session scan A fe4f8f5fb38a

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OpenBoringBar AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nagisa77/OpenBoringBar (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,735 tokens to every session, about $0.0087 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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