Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to OctopusGarage/alcove. 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/OctopusGarage/alcove/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OctopusGarage/alcoveWrote 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/octopusgarage/alcove/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/octopusgarage/alcove/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/octopusgarage/alcove/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/octopusgarage/alcove/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/octopusgarage/alcove/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 | $0.00728 | $0.00728 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00364 | $0.00364 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00146 | $0.00146 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00073 | $0.00073 |
Grade A, and why
alcove 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 9d 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 — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Rules for Codex and other coding agents in this repo.
@RTK.md
Smoke / Eval Shortcuts
Project-local Codex skill:
$alcove-smoke: choose and run the appropriate Alcove smoke/eval suite.
Claude Code project commands:
/smoke/smoke keep/smoke-real-home/smoke-real-integrations/eval-ai
Direct commands:
scripts/agent-quality-gate.sh --mode coach
scripts/smoke.sh
ALCOVE_REAL_SMOKE_REPORT_DIR=.tmp/real-home-smoke scripts/smoke-real-home.sh
scripts/smoke-real-integrations.sh
scripts/eval-ai.sh
scripts/check.sh
Agent quality gate:
- Codex project hooks are configured in
.codex/config.toml. - Hooks run
scripts/agent-quality-gate.shonStopin strict mode by default, executing and enforcing the selected checks automatically. - Set
ALCOVE_AGENT_GATE_MODE=coachto report required smoke/eval commands without blocking the turn. - See
docs/evals/agent-quality-gates.mdbefore changing hook, prompt, skill, AI eval, MCP routing, search, inbox, dashboard, or verification behavior. - Keep implementation and docs aligned in the same change. When code changes
user-visible behavior, storage, CLI/MCP contracts, agent entries, dashboard,
radars, connectors, mounts, OKF, smoke, eval, or install flows, update the
related docs or state why no docs change is needed. Use
$alcove-doc-syncfor the checklist. - Review the public GitHub Pages site when public docs, entry modes,
workspaces, MCP/CLI routing, publishing, dashboard, or install flows change.
Update
site/index.htmlonly when the global public overview would drift: project positioning, entry model, installation path, or top-level module relationships changed. Do not add narrow feature details to the site just because a feature changed. - Treat entry-mode impact as part of every feature change. Most day-to-day
usage starts from the Hub workspace, so new or changed behavior must answer:
does
alcove-hubneed routing/protocol updates, do lightweight business workspaces needalcove-workspaceguidance, does the managed-KB entry need workflow updates, and should global MCP expose only a lightweight tool or command hint? Update the relevant skill templates, MCP toolsets, docs, and smoke/eval coverage in the same change.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 728 tokens per session scan A 452831e2af0c
alcove AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository OctopusGarage/alcove (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 728 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 per session on Opus 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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