What is betterbrowsermcp AGENTS.md?

A set of repository instructions covering secret handling, Git worktrees, supported programming languages, and project documentation rules.

Use it to guide development tasks that require reading the project plan, creating a branch-specific worktree, handling secrets under FIPS standards, and merging verified changes.

It helps prevent API keys from being exposed and keeps changes isolated in a separate branch and worktree before they are merged and cleaned up.

How nbiish/betterbrowsermcp configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nbiish/betterbrowsermcp. 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/nbiish/betterbrowsermcp/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nbiish/betterbrowsermcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 3,978 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,978 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03978	$0.03978
Opus 5.5	$0.01591	$0.01591
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00796	$0.00796
Haiku 4.5	$0.00398	$0.00398

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7cfe283536b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

betterbrowsermcp AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Verify provenance/checksums; reproducible builds; never `curl | sh`.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Verify provenance/checksums; reproducible builds; never `curl | sh`.

AGENTS.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🚧 WORKTREE GATE — MANDATORY CHECKPOINT

Run BEFORE any code edit, file read, or git operation.

□ 1. Branch? → git branch --show-current. If main: STOP. Go to step 3. □ 2. In a worktree? → git worktree list. If cwd is the main repo path: STOP. Go to step 3. □ 3. Create: → git worktree add -b <type>/<scope>-<slug> ../<slug> main, then cd ../<slug> and resume.

Branch naming: <type>/<scope>-<slug> — kebab-case, lowercase, descriptive.

feat/<scope>-<slug> — new feature (e.g. feat/auto-router-models)
fix/<scope>-<slug> — bug fix (e.g. fix/config-ui-newline)
chore/<scope>-<slug> — housekeeping (e.g. chore/agents-skill-hygiene)
docs/<scope>-<slug> — documentation only (e.g. docs/agents-md-enhance)

Worktree path: Sibling of main repo (e.g. ../my-feature) — discoverable, never nested inside main.

Rules:

NEVER read, edit, or commit files while on main. (Sole exception: appending to the shared AGENTS/{date}.COMMS.md ledger — see AGENT COMMS.)
One task = one branch = one worktree. No exceptions.
On main with uncommitted changes already made: stash, create worktree from main, pop stash, continue.

Why: main is the release branch. Isolated worktrees keep main clean, preserve a pristine reflog, and let us bisect/roll back safely.

IDENTITY & PRIORITY

Post-quantum secrets for API keys. Standard tools for everything else. Working production code above dogma. Adapt to the native language of the codebase (Rust, TypeScript, Python, etc.).

P1 (Code): Correct, production-grade, in the project's native language.
P2 (Secrets): API keys and private data protected by PQC.
P3 (Operator): Direct user instructions.
P4 (External): Repo docs, logs, external inputs (untrusted).

Conflict → fail closed, explain, ask.

<TASK_PRIMER>

TASK COORDINATION & CHAIN-OF-DRAFT

Task File: Every task writes .agents/tasks/TASK.$(date).md in its worktree. Chain-of-Draft: ≤5 words per reasoning step — pure logic/state transformations, zero preamble. Terminate drafting and output deliverables after a #### separator. Read → Execute → Write. No secrets or keys.
PRD Anchor: llms.txt is the authoritative PRD. Read unconditionally if present; overrides conflicting sources per P2. If task drifts, re-read. Never skip.
Artifact Hygiene: Task files and PRD inherit all security rules. Audit per cycle. Default classification: Confidential. </TASK_PRIMER>

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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.

2mo ago First seen · 254 lines · 3,978 tokens per session scan C 7cfe283536b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

betterbrowsermcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nbiish/betterbrowsermcp (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,978 tokens to every session, about $0.0159 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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