Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ntppool/monitor. 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/ntppool/monitor/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ntppool/monitorWrote 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/ntppool/monitor/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ntppool/monitor/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ntppool/monitor/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/ntppool/monitor/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ntppool/monitor/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 | $0.00530 | $0.00530 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00212 | $0.00212 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00106 | $0.00106 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00053 | $0.00053 |
Grade A, and why
monitor 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file is the shared agent entrypoint for tools that support AGENTS.md.
In this repository, the canonical per-directory agent instructions live in stacked CLAUDE.md files. Use this file to discover and apply those CLAUDE.md instructions correctly.
Instruction Loading
- Always read the repository root
CLAUDE.mdfirst. - When working in a specific subtree, also read every
CLAUDE.mdon the directory path from the repo root down to the target directory. - Apply those files in order from general to specific. Example for work in
apps/mirrors/cpan/primary/:<repo-root>/CLAUDE.md<repo-root>/apps/mirrors/CLAUDE.md<repo-root>/apps/mirrors/cpan/primary/CLAUDE.md
Scope And Precedence
- Treat the root
CLAUDE.mdas repo-wide defaults. - Treat deeper
CLAUDE.mdfiles as additive and more specific to their subtree. - If two applicable
CLAUDE.mdfiles conflict, the deepest applicable file wins. - Apply subtree-specific guidance only within that subtree.
Multi-File Work
- For a single-file task, load the
CLAUDE.mdstack for that file's directory. - For multi-file tasks spanning different subtrees, load the applicable stack for each file you inspect or modify.
- Do not apply instructions from one subtree to unrelated sibling subtrees unless the root
CLAUDE.mdsays to do so. - If the task starts as repo-wide exploration and no target path is known yet, begin with the root
CLAUDE.mdand load deeper files as the task narrows.
Canonical Files Only
- Use files named exactly
CLAUDE.mdas the authoritative stacked instructions. - Ignore conflict copies, backups, and similarly named files such as
CLAUDE.sync-conflict-*.mdunless the user explicitly asks about them.
Tool Configuration
- Tools that support custom context filenames should be configured to load
AGENTS.mdfrom the repository root. - If a tool also supports another agent file such as
GEMINI.md, that file should either repeat these rules or defer toAGENTS.md, butCLAUDE.mdremains the canonical source of per-directory instructions.
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 · 43 lines · 530 tokens per session scan A 338a0f17076c
monitor AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ntppool/monitor (22 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 530 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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.
monitor AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| monitor AGENTS.mdntppool/monitor | Instructions file | 22 | 12d ago | MIT | A | 530 | 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 | today | 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 |