serena AGENTS.md

serena AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from oraios/serena. It costs 50 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A short instruction directing agents to project knowledge stored in Serena memory files. Serena is a tool for keeping reusable notes about a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Serena and needing its stored project memories, either through Serena tools or by reading the .serena/memories files directly.
Why use it?
It tells agents where to look for project-specific information when the main instructions do not contain it.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/oraios/serena/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oraios/serena

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.

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README.md
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Per session 50 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 50 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.00050
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00025
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00005

Measured 4d ago against content hash e575ccbb1433, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serena 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 4 lines

What it actually says

Relevant information about the project is in .serena/memories. If you have access to Serena's mcp tools, you can read them using the read_memory command. Otherwise you can just read them using normal file reading tools.

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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 4 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e575ccbb1433

Subscribe to this mod's changes

serena AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oraios/serena (28,783 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.