tarn: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

tarn AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from NazarKalytiuk/tarn. It costs 2,678 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Tarn, a command-line tool for testing APIs. Tests are written in YAML, can send requests and check responses, and can return structured JSON results for other programs to process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to create, validate, list, and run API tests, including checking status codes, response fields, captured values, headers, and environment-based URLs.
Why use it?
They give an agent the exact test format and commands needed to validate API behavior without writing separate test code for every request.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is NazarKalytiuk/tarn's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on tarn 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 tarn configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade C, and why

tarn AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

- Code actions: **extract env var**, **capture this field**, **scaffold assert from recorded response**.
AGENTS.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tarn — AI Agent Integration Guide

Tarn is a CLI API testing tool. Tests are YAML files (.tarn.yaml), results are structured JSON.

Quick Reference

tarn run                          # run all tests in tests/
tarn run tests/users.tarn.yaml    # run specific file
tarn run --format json            # structured JSON output (for parsing)
tarn validate                     # check syntax without running
tarn list                         # list all tests

Writing a Test

name: User API
steps:
  - name: Create user
    request:
      method: POST
      url: "{{ env.base_url }}/users"
      headers:
        Content-Type: "application/json"
      body:
        name: "Jane Doe"
        email: "[email protected]"
    capture:
      user_id: "$.id"                  # JSONPath (type-preserving)
      # session:                       # header capture with regex
      #   header: "set-cookie"
      #   regex: "session=([^;]+)"
    assert:
      status: 201                      # also: "2xx", { in: [200,201] }, { gte: 200, lt: 300 }
      body:
        "$.name": "Jane Doe"
        "$.id": { type: string, not_empty: true }

  - name: Get user
    request:
      method: GET
      url: "{{ env.base_url }}/users/{{ capture.user_id }}"
    assert:
      status: 200
      body:
        "$.name": "Jane Doe"

Assertion Operators

Operator Example Description
(literal) "$.name": "Alice" Exact match
eq { eq: "Alice" } Explicit equality
not_eq { not_eq: "Bob" } Not equal
type { type: string } Type check (string/number/boolean/array/object/null)
contains { contains: "sub" } Substring or array element
not_contains { not_contains: "x" } Inverse of contains
starts_with { starts_with: "usr_" } String prefix
ends_with { ends_with: ".com" } String suffix
matches { matches: "^[a-z]+$" } Regex match
not_empty { not_empty: true } Non-empty string/array/object
exists { exists: true } Field exists
length { length: 5 } Exact length
gt/gte/lt/lte { gt: 0 } Numeric comparison

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 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. 2mo ago First seen · 247 lines · 2,678 tokens per session scan C 8cb0c748626f

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tarn AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NazarKalytiuk/tarn (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,678 tokens to every session, about $0.0107 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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