betterbrowsermcp AGENTS.md

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

In plain words
What is it for?
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.
Why use it?
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.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.03978 $0.03978
Opus 5 $0.01989 $0.01989
Sonnet 5 $0.00796 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00398 $0.00398

Measured yesterday against content hash 7cfe283536b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

  1. yesterday 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 (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,978 tokens to every session, about $0.0199 per session on Opus 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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