mnemex: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

mnemex AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from notsointresting/mnemex. It costs 305 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for building mnemex, a local tool that remembers software decisions and links them to files and code symbols. It also defines rules for coordinating coding agents and testing their work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning mnemex development, assigning bounded tasks to agents, checking their diffs and tests, and enforcing platform, context-size, and privacy requirements.
Why use it?
It gives agents a shared source of truth and limits changes to the planned phase, while keeping stored information local and removing secrets and personal data.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is notsointresting/mnemex's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on mnemex 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 mnemex configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 305 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 305 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.
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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 $0.00305 $0.00305
Opus 5.5 $0.00122 $0.00122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00061 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ce18c75a73ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mnemex 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 · 27 lines

What it actually says

mnemex — Agent Build Context

Sources of truth

Read implementation-plan-opus48.md, codebase-mind-improved-plan.md, goal-command.md, and CLAUDE.md before changing the project. Build phases in plan order; Phase 1's anchor core must be complete before any indexer work.

Goal

Build a local-first MCP server that anchors each remembered decision to a file/symbol and content hash, then delivers relevant context just in time. Use one SQLite file with sqlite-vec and FTS5, and distribute context through MCP, skills, hooks, and AGENTS.md.

Orchestration rules

  • Give each subagent one bounded contract with inputs, outputs, and exact tests.
  • Require diffs, test results, and a self-report; never blind-merge.
  • A phase is complete only after its objective gate passes.
  • Use a separate verifier instance; authors do not grade their own work.
  • Keep changes within the current phase and do not add speculative APIs.

Hard constraints

  • Core features stay local and require no cloud API or ML model.
  • Context caps are hard limits: 800 tokens at session start and 400 for JIT.
  • Support macOS, Linux, and Windows on Python 3.10–3.13.
  • Strip secrets and PII at write time; the Phase 6 security gate is blocking.
  • Prefer a pluggable structural backend over implementing another parser.
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 · 27 lines · 305 tokens per session scan A ce18c75a73ee

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mnemex AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository notsointresting/mnemex (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 305 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.

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