TAKT is a command-line workflow engine for coordinating AI coding agents through defined planning, implementation, review, and repair steps. Development teams describe agent roles, permissions, checkpoints, and outputs in YAML, while TAKT runs tasks in isolated worktrees and records their results; the catalogue entries provide agents, instructions, and skills for these workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nrslib/takt. 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/nrslib/takt/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nrslib/taktWrote 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/nrslib/takt/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nrslib/takt/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nrslib/takt/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/nrslib/takt/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nrslib/takt/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 | $0.01020 | $0.01020 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00408 | $0.00408 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00204 | $0.00204 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00102 | $0.00102 |
Grade A, and why
takt 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 14d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Repository Guidelines
Project Structure & Module Organization
src/: main TypeScript source. CLI entrypoints live insrc/app/cli/, core workflow execution insrc/core/, shared helpers insrc/shared/, and feature modules insrc/features/.src/__tests__/: Vitest unit and integration tests, typically named*.test.ts.e2e/: end-to-end specs, helpers, fixtures, mock workflows, and provider scenarios.builtins/: builtin workflows, facets, templates, prompts, and runtime config assets shipped with the CLI.docs/: user and design documentation.bin/contains executable wrappers.dist/is generated output and should not be edited by hand.
Build, Test, and Development Commands
npm install: install project dependencies.npm run build: compile TypeScript and copy runtime prompts, i18n files, and presets intodist/.npm run watch: run the TypeScript compiler in incremental watch mode.npm run lint: run ESLint onsrc/.npm test: run the fast unit gate in an adaptive number of concurrent shards during development (based on available parallelism, capped at 8). Integration tests are excluded; targeted source tests are routed to their classified runner.npm run test:it: run the light integration gate after implementation. It covers real filesystem, bounded storage, and multi-component contracts.npm run test:it:heavy: run all child-process, Git, full-engine, and measured resource-heavy integration tests locally with one worker. Pull-request CI splits it across isolated runners; do not run it routinely during development.npm test -- <test-file>: run a classified test through its unit, light-IT, or heavy-IT runner. When adding or changing an IT, also runnpm test -- src/__tests__/releaseVerificationWiring.test.tsby itself. Always run an added or changed heavy IT before handoff; the PR-wide heavy gate is not its first execution.npm run test:e2e:smoke: run the focused mock E2E suite during development.npm run check:release: run the full release verification path locally: dependency sync (sync:nix-deps, rewritespackage-lock.json/flake.nixand reinstalls), build, packed global install with npm 10 and 11 (test:global-install), lint, fast unit (adaptive local shards), light IT, heavy IT, and all E2E suites. The 8-runner unit matrix is a separate path in the main pull-request CI workflow.
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.
- 14d ago Changed · +43 tokens per session 491f21559698
- 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 977 tokens per session scan A 42e8339022c3
takt AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nrslib/takt (1,423 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,020 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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 2026-08-30.
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
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
vscode model-prompts.instructions.md
Model-specific prompt authoring and registry guidelines.