Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to noho/code-is-cheap. 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/noho/code-is-cheap/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noho/code-is-cheapWrote 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/noho/code-is-cheap/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/noho/code-is-cheap/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/noho/code-is-cheap/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/noho/code-is-cheap/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/noho/code-is-cheap/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 | $0.00464 | $0.00464 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00186 | $0.00186 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00093 | $0.00093 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00046 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
code-is-cheap 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 6d 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
Project development workflow
These instructions apply to development of this repository.
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Create a work branch before changing files; reuse the current work branch when continuing an unmerged PR.
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Use
$sub-agentsto dispatchgpt-6-solthroughcodex-agent-run(Codex runtime) for plan, implementation, and fixes. -
Use
$sub-agentsto dispatch two independent$deepreviewreviews in parallel:mimo-flashthroughclaude-agent-run(Claude runtime), andds-flashthroughclaude-agent-run(Claude runtime). If theds-flashClaude runtime is unavailable (for example, due to authentication, package, or invocation permission failures), the controller may usecodex-agent-run --provider ds-flash(Codex runtime) as the backup runtime for the same reviewer after recording the reason, preserving independent parallel review withmimo-flash. -
The controller checks the evidence, adjudicates findings, and dispatches accepted fixes to
gpt-6-solbefore closing the review loop. -
Commit as needed, push the work branch, and create a PR. The user merges it manually.
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After final closeout passes, remind the user to sync to live and record the applicable sync commands in the closeout artifact. Run the following commands from the repository checkout containing the approved changes, selecting the scripts needed for the changed components. Live deployment requires user authorization.
./scripts/sync-skills.sh # Codex / Claude skills ./scripts/sync-agent-tools.sh # Launchers, runners, and shared helpers ./scripts/sync-codex-agent.sh # Codex profiles, catalogs, routes, and shim serviceReload interactive launcher functions with
source ~/.zshrcor open a new shell after deploying them; reopen Agent sessions to load updated skills. Runner callers do not need to source~/.zshrcwhen the installed runner is already onPATH.
These provider/runtime pairs are the default review routes for this repository, with the ds-flash Codex runtime backup allowed under the conditions above. Explicit user instructions for a task take precedence.
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.
- 6d ago Changed · +87 tokens per session f5e3ec3826b7
- 17d ago Changed · +10 lines · +222 tokens per session 7589427df6bd
- 20d ago Changed · +13 tokens per session b474e46fc40d
- 27d ago First seen · 11 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 68c136830b57
code-is-cheap AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository noho/code-is-cheap (94 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 464 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-10-03.
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