Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to openvang/vanguarstew. 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/openvang/vanguarstew/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openvang/vanguarstewWrote 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/openvang/vanguarstew/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/openvang/vanguarstew/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openvang/vanguarstew/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/openvang/vanguarstew/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openvang/vanguarstew/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 | $0.00420 | $0.00420 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00168 | $0.00168 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00084 | $0.00084 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
vanguarstew 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 — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenVang project constitution
Durable project-wide rules for the OpenVang agent factory and the Vanguarstew maintainer-intelligence component. Code, tests, and automation must follow these rules.
Component contract
- The maintainer component shall expose
solve(repo_path, request, ...)as its stable entrypoint. - Managed inference parameters are supplied by the controller; agent code shall not discover or substitute credentials.
VANGUARSTEW_OFFLINE=1shall select the deterministic offline stub.- Benchmark and live persistent memory shall remain time-safe, controller-owned, and read-only from the maintainer component.
Benchmark and execution integrity
- Forward-looking signal shall not cross a benchmark freeze boundary.
- Held-out repositories shall be evaluated separately from tuned repositories.
- Public artifacts and TEE evidence shall contain only receipt-safe commitments, never raw private memory, review material, credentials, or private sources.
- Polaris integration shall be described as execution integrity, not workload confidentiality.
Factory authority
- Every factory worker shall declare one role contract from
openvang/factory.py. - No role may automatically access a wallet, submit an on-chain transaction, change emissions, vote in governance, mutate GitHub, or publish.
- Owner-level effects require a separate external approval and signing boundary;
a factory
ActionIntentis non-executable by design. - Role-private memory, including private maintainer-review material, shall never cross role boundaries or enter public, benchmark, or TEE artifacts.
- Security QA is defensive and isolated; it may propose containment but may not perform an offensive or production mutation.
Quality gates
- Changes under
agent/,benchmark/,openvang/, orvanguarstew_runtime/shall include matching tests. ruff check .and the relevant offline test suite shall pass before release.- Runtime defaults shall remain dry-run, loopback-only, private, and without a GitHub write path.
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 · 45 lines · 420 tokens per session scan A 00ad6fb86748
vanguarstew AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository openvang/vanguarstew (21 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 420 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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.
vanguarstew AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vanguarstew AGENTS.mdopenvang/vanguarstew | Instructions file | 21 | 16d ago | MIT | A | 420 | 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 |