brat: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

brat AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from neul-labs/brat. It costs 323 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for brat, a tool that coordinates coding-agent work through convoys, tasks, sessions, and shared project context. It lists commands for checking status, updating work, recording comments, and saving repository knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when managing brat tasks or sessions, reporting progress, storing project conventions, creating memory notes, or indexing the codebase.
Why use it?
It gives agents a consistent way to find their assigned work and keep task status and project context up to date.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is neul-labs/brat's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on brat 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 brat configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 323 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 323 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 $0.00323 $0.00323
Opus 5.5 $0.00129 $0.00129
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0826497c700c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brat 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 · 59 lines

What it actually says

Brat

This repository uses Brat for AI agent orchestration. Use brat commands for work management.

Checking Status

# Overall status (convoys, tasks, sessions)
brat status --json

# List active sessions
brat session list --json

Working on Tasks

When assigned a task, you'll have task context in .claude/current_task.md.

# Update task status as you progress
brat task update <task_id> --status running --json
brat task update <task_id> --status needs-review --json

# Add progress comments (recorded in gritee issue)
gritee issue comment <issue_id> --body "Checkpoint: implemented X, tests passing" --json

Storing Context

Store architectural observations for future agents:

# Project-level context (conventions, patterns)
gritee context set test_command "cargo test"
gritee context set build_command "cargo build"
gritee context set api_pattern "REST /api/v1/"

# Discoveries as memory issues
gritee issue create --label memory --title "[Memory] Auth flow" --body "Uses JWT..." --json

# Index codebase symbols after significant changes
gritee context index --json

Reading Context

Query existing knowledge before starting:

# Project conventions
gritee context project --json

# Previous discoveries
gritee issue list --label memory --json

# Code symbols
gritee context query <function_name> --json
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 · 59 lines · 323 tokens per session scan A 0826497c700c

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brat AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository neul-labs/brat (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 323 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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