What is coven AGENTS.md?

Contributor instructions for Coven, a Rust authority layer with TypeScript integration packages, including worktree, branch, pull-request, and CI practices. A worktree is a separate checkout that lets multiple coding sessions work without changing the same files.

Use them before changing Coven, especially when claiming work, creating a branch, preparing a pull request, or running checks.

They help contributors avoid duplicate work and keep the Rust core separate from the TypeScript integration code.

How OpenCoven/coven configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to OpenCoven/coven. 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/OpenCoven/coven/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/opencoven/coven/agents-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/opencoven/coven/agents-md)

Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 3,089 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,089 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	$0.03089	$0.03089
Opus 5.5	$0.01236	$0.01236
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00618	$0.00618
Haiku 4.5	$0.00309	$0.00309

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2aed3a64d07b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coven 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 5d 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 · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — coven

Guidance for AI agents (Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and any Coven familiar) opening pull requests against this repo. Humans: your canonical guide is CONTRIBUTING.md — this is the agent-specific layer on top.

Read first: README.md for what this repo is, and CONTRIBUTING.md for the full contribution bar (including the "Contributor First 10 Minutes" checkout path).

What this repo is (one line)

Coven is a small, boring Rust authority layer with TypeScript integration packages around it. The development loop must keep that boundary clear: core logic stays in Rust; the npm packages are thin integration surface.

Check, enter a worktree, then claim it

Multiple agent sessions (Codex, Claude Code, familiars) frequently run against the same checkout at once, each in its own worktree. Worktrees keep git operations from racing, but they do not stop two sessions from independently building the same issue — which has happened repeatedly, producing duplicate PRs that a session then has to close. Before you touch code:

Check what's already taken. Duplication hides behind divergent branch names — one issue once spawned fix/output-polish, fix/311-output-polish, and fix/output-polish-311 — so branch names alone won't tell you. Check both the shared claim registry and open PRs:
```
coven claim status          # active claims, shared across every worktree of this repo
gh pr list --state open     # is there already a PR for this issue?
```
If the issue is claimed or already has a PR, pick different work or coordinate.
Create or enter the task worktree. The automatic fallback identity is worktree-scoped, so enter the worktree before acquiring the claim:
```
git fetch origin main
git worktree add -b <branch> /tmp/coven-<branch-slug> origin/main
cd /tmp/coven-<branch-slug>
```
Claim it with a shared, issue-keyed token — not your working branch name, which no other session can predict:
```
coven claim acquire issue-<N>     # e.g. issue-311; a TTL-bounded lock
```
Claims live in the repo's shared --git-common-dir/agent-claims/, so every worktree and session sees them. For long tasks, extend the TTL with coven claim heartbeat issue-<N>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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.

5d ago Changed · +9 lines · +157 tokens per session 2aed3a64d07b
8d ago Changed · +5 lines · +98 tokens per session 04fec0b2586f
22d ago Changed · +18 lines · +229 tokens per session b49af8c2baf1
1mo ago Changed · +75 lines · +907 tokens per session b3ca0aae3e37
1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 1,698 tokens per session scan A 51468c69173c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coven AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 3,089 tokens to every session, about $0.0124 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.

Claude Code agent-orchestration ai-agents codex model-agnostic opencoven

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).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

coven: Instructions file for Codex

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

AGENTS.md — coven

What this repo is (one line)

Check, enter a worktree, then claim it

What this file has done since we first saw it

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