Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nimocat/fishbowl. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nimocat/fishbowl/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nimocat/fishbowlWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimocat/fishbowl/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimocat/fishbowl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nimocat/fishbowl/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nimocat/fishbowl/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nimocat/fishbowl/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00310 | $0.00310 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00124 | $0.00124 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00062 | $0.00062 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00031 |
Grade A, and why
fishbowl 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.
What it actually says
Agent Instructions
- Keep
docs/agent-log.md,docs/implementation-plan.md,CONTEXT.md, ADRs, anddocs/handoff.mdcurrent during substantial work. - Follow test-driven development for behavior changes.
- Keep SQLite project scoping explicit in every query and mutation.
- Never persist raw logs, environment values, or unredacted excerpts in SQLite.
- Run
npm run typecheck,npm test, andnpm run buildbefore declaring completion. - After completing a Fishbowl upgrade, refresh the local linked installation and current-user daemon registration, then verify the updated daemon through direct Fishbowl MCP before declaring completion. Preserve local knowledge data and the configured fixed port.
Fishbowl Access From Codex
- Use direct Fishbowl MCP tool calls for all agent queries and writes.
- Never fall back to the Fishbowl CLI,
node .../dist/cli/main.js, direct SQLite access, or shell wrappers when MCP is unavailable. - Treat MCP tool discovery as the only Fishbowl discovery path. Do not search PATH, package scripts, or the filesystem for a Fishbowl CLI executable from an agent session.
- Treat the CLI as a human-operated installation, diagnostics, and recovery interface only.
- If the MCP namespace or required tool is unavailable, report it and ask the user to configure or restart the MCP client. Do not substitute another transport; continue the core task only when omitting Fishbowl persistence is safe.
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 · 20 lines · 310 tokens per session scan A 110aaa3c568b
fishbowl AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nimocat/fishbowl (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 310 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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.
fishbowl AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fishbowl AGENTS.mdnimocat/fishbowl | Instructions file | 0 | 3mo ago | MIT | A | 310 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |