What is oc AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for the OpenShift command-line tool, which manages applications and resources on Red Hat OpenShift, a platform for running containerized software. They explain how it relates to kubectl, the standard Kubernetes command-line tool, and how to build and test it.

Use them when changing CLI commands, building the tool, running tests for one package or the full project, checking Linux behavior, or updating shell command completion.

They help contributors know whether a change belongs in OpenShift or in the upstream Kubernetes tool, and which checks to run before finishing work.

How openshift/oc configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to openshift/oc. 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/openshift/oc/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift/oc

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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.

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Per session 1,617 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,617 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	$0.01617	$0.01617
Opus 5.5	$0.00647	$0.00647
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00323	$0.00323
Haiku 4.5	$0.00162	$0.00162

Measured 2mo ago against content hash bb892c0c3d1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oc 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 · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenShift CLI (oc)

The OpenShift Client (oc) is the official CLI for OpenShift Container Platform. It is built on top of kubectl and extends it with OpenShift-specific functionality.

Architecture: oc and kubectl Relationship

kubectl is a subset of oc — every kubectl command is available in oc. Commands range from pure kubectl wrappers (in pkg/cli/kubectlwrappers/) through OCP-extended wrappers, to fully OCP-native commands. The key rule: if a command is a pure kubectl wrapper, behavioral changes belong upstream in k8s.io/kubectl, not here.

See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full taxonomy and design rationale.

Build and Test

make oc                              # Fast build, ~5-10s (strips debug symbols by default)
make build                           # Full build (includes oc-tests-ext, tools)
make test                            # Unit tests (~2-5 min for full suite)
make verify                          # Formatting, linting, CLI convention checks (~30-60s)
make verify-cli-conventions          # CLI structure validation via tools/clicheck
make update-generated-completions    # Regenerate shell completions
make verify-generated-completions    # Verify completions are up-to-date

Go version: see go.mod for the required version.

Running Tests for a Single Package

# Linux
go test -tags 'include_gcs include_oss containers_image_openpgp gssapi' ./pkg/cli/admin/policy/...

# macOS / Windows (omit gssapi)
go test -tags 'include_gcs include_oss containers_image_openpgp' ./pkg/cli/admin/policy/...

Project Structure

Directory	Purpose
`cmd/oc/`	Main entry point
`cmd/oc-tests-ext/`	OTE (OpenShift Test Extension) entry point
`pkg/cli/`	Command implementations (~37 top-level commands)
`pkg/cli/admin/`	Admin subcommands (~27 directories)
`pkg/cli/kubectlwrappers/`	kubectl command wrappers
`pkg/helpers/`	Shared utilities (scheme, errors, auth, bulk ops)
`hack/`	Build and verification scripts (`update-` regenerates, `verify-` checks)
`tools/`	clicheck, gendocs, genman
`test/e2e/`	End-to-end tests (Ginkgo v2)
`images/`	Container image definitions
`vendor/`	Vendored dependencies (Go modules)

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 1,617 tokens per session scan A bb892c0c3d1b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oc AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository openshift/oc (250 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,617 tokens to every session, about $0.0065 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.

Containers DevOps and cloud

oc AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
oc AGENTS.mdopenshift/oc	Instructions file	250	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	1,617	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

oc: Instructions file for Codex