What is nix-openclaw-tools AGENTS.md?

Packaging instructions for a repository that builds OpenClaw-related command-line tools and agent skills with Nix. Nix is a system for creating repeatable software builds and environments.

Use it when adding or updating tool packages, plugin metadata, checks, or automatic update support for OpenClaw-related tools.

It clarifies which project owns runtime behavior, packaging, and machine configuration. This helps keep builds reproducible and prevents downstream projects from duplicating packaging work.

How openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools. 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/openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 477 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 477 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.

Token cost

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	$0.00477	$0.00477
Opus 5.5	$0.00191	$0.00191
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00095	$0.00095
Haiku 4.5	$0.00048	$0.00048

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8682a091ed8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nix-openclaw-tools 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 · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — nix-openclaw-tools

This repo packages OpenClaw-adjacent CLI tools and plugin metadata. It is part of the public OpenClaw Nix packaging boundary, not Josh's private machine config.

Boundary Model

OpenClaw owns product/runtime behavior.
nix-openclaw owns the batteries-included Nix module surface, runtime injection, launchd/systemd wiring, and package-contract checks.
nix-openclaw-tools owns reproducible packages for tool CLIs and the plugin metadata/skills that describe them.
nixos-config and other downstream machine repos should only choose hosts, secrets, accounts, and which plugins are enabled. If a downstream repo has to build a tool, copy a tool package, or hand-wire a tool into an agent PATH, fix this repo or nix-openclaw instead.

Packaging Rules

Packages must be Garnix-cacheable for supported systems. Do not rely on Homebrew, globally installed Node/Python, Xcode state outside Nix, or runtime npm/npx/uvx.
Prefer upstream release assets when they exist. Build from source only when release assets do not exist or are not suitable.
If a tool is a first-party OpenClaw battery, add/update package, plugin metadata, checks, and auto-update logic together.
QMD belongs here when packaged for Nix OpenClaw. The package should provide the qmd CLI; nix-openclaw decides how to inject it into the OpenClaw runtime.
Do not expose tools globally by policy from this repo. Export packages and plugin metadata; let nix-openclaw place them on the correct agent/runtime PATH.

Automation

cmd/update-tools is the release-asset updater. Keep it resilient: one upstream tool changing asset names should not silently rot the whole repo.
QMD freshness should be checked by automation too. Josh should not have to remember a separate QMD bump path.
cmd/sync-skills tracks OpenClaw skills from upstream main.
Garnix should build package checks for every supported package/system after update commits.

Workflow

Trunk-based development on main.
Keep commits small and logical.
Run targeted package checks before committing; use CI/Garnix for expensive cross-platform proof.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 477 tokens per session scan A 8682a091ed8c

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nix-openclaw-tools AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository openclaw/nix-openclaw-tools (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 477 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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.

DevOps and cloud

nix-openclaw-tools AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
nix-openclaw-tools AGENTS.mdopenclaw/nix-openclaw-tools	Instructions file	54	yesterday	MIT	A	477	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	yesterday	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

nix-openclaw-tools: Instructions file for Codex