Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nolindnaidoo/string-le. 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/nolindnaidoo/string-le/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nolindnaidoo/string-leWrote 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/nolindnaidoo/string-le/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nolindnaidoo/string-le/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nolindnaidoo/string-le/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/nolindnaidoo/string-le/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nolindnaidoo/string-le/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 | $0.08165 | $0.08165 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03266 | $0.03266 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01633 | $0.01633 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00817 | $0.00817 |
Grade A, and why
string-le AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.
Runs shell commandslowCapability
Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.
- **`check:mcp-bundle` refuses what the README says it refuses.** Beyond a non-builtin and `vscode`, it refuses `fs`, `net`, `http`, `https`, `dns`, `child_process` and their kin, with or without the `node:` prefix, so " This is a copy
88% identical to regex-le AGENTS.md — 110 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Strings-LE
Technical source of truth for this repo. README.md is the user-facing doc; this file is for anyone (human or agent) changing the code.
This repo hosts two products: the extension at the root (this document's scope) and the Rust CLI in crate/ (its own AGENTS.md + SPEC.md). The shared extraction corpus lives at crate/fixtures/; scripts/check-extraction-parity.ts fails CI when this extension drifts from it.
scripts/check-differential.ts is the second half of that guard: it drives the shared extract_strings MCP tool on both servers — this one and the crate's — over generated documents, and requires byte-identical answers. The corpus pins the cases somebody thought of; that pins the ones nobody did. Scope is the shared tool only. The two surfaces are meant to differ — this one is IDE-first, for one open buffer; the CLI is terminal-first, for trees, exit codes and pipes — so the walk, --strict, --values and --multiline are the crate's alone and are never held against this side.
The Rust CLI also ships a second way, through npm: src/cli/ is its terminal surface rebuilt over this extension's extraction engine, bundled to cli/cli.js as the npm package strings-le (npm refuses string-le as too close to an older stringle). Both install a command named string-le, so the npm one is held to the crate's surface byte for byte, which is a different contract from the extraction parity above. src/cli/ follows crate/src/cli.rs, scan.rs, walk.rs, extract/locate.rs, extract/position.rs and mcp/mod.rs, not the extension's commands, and scripts/check-cli-parity.ts runs both binaries over one generated tree and fails on any difference in stdout, stderr or exit code, and in what string-le mcp answers. The one thing it does not compare is the wording after Invalid <FORMAT>: when a parser refuses a document, which crate/SPEC.md already lists as a deliberate difference. scripts/check-cli-pipes.ts, shared with every port, closes stdout or stderr before either binary writes and fails on any difference in what follows, on all three operating systems. A change to the crate's surface changes src/cli/ in the same commit.
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.
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- 1mo ago First seen · 321 lines · 5,317 tokens per session scan A 57f1e875b5fc
string-le AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nolindnaidoo/string-le (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8,165 tokens to every session, about $0.0327 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). It is 88% identical to regex-le AGENTS.md, differing in 110 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
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Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
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