smartstack AGENTS.md

A project-wide instruction file for SmartStack, a setup that gives coding assistants shared context, stored project knowledge, and working rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It tells assistants what to read at the start of a session and how context, memory, rules, hooks, and specialist agents fit together.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated project explanations and helps prevent recurring bugs or changes that harm security or user experience.

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/oreum-ai/smartstack/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oreum-ai/smartstack

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,418 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,418 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 $0.01418 $0.01418
Opus 5 $0.00709 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00284 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00142 $0.00142

Measured 2d ago against content hash 829f3654d187, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smartstack 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 2d 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 · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — SmartStack

This is the portable brain. Every AI coding tool (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf/Antigravity, Copilot, Ollama-based assistants) is pointed here by a thin adapter (see /adapters). Read this at the start of every session. Detailed knowledge lives in ai-rules/ and is loaded on demand.

SmartStack © 2026 oreumaii · MIT. Make your AI assistant smarter, ship better, spend fewer tokens.


What SmartStack does for you

Three problems waste tokens and quality on every project: re-explaining the project each session, re-solving the same bugs, and shipping changes that quietly break security or UX. SmartStack fixes all three:

  1. Persistent context — this file + ai-rules/context/ mean the assistant always knows your project without you re-explaining it. (This alone typically cuts tokens ~30–40%.)
  2. Indexed memoryai-rules/memory/ recalls the last sessions and a permanent, terse list of common bugs, looked up by index so the assistant never rescans everything.
  3. Enforced standardsai-rules/rules/, ai-rules/hooks/, and ai-rules/agents/ keep security, performance, and UX correct before code ships.

This kit is framework-agnostic. It works for any language or stack (web, mobile, backend, scripts, data). Where a rule needs project specifics, you fill them into ai-rules/context/project.md once.


Session protocol (follow every session)

  1. Start → read ai-rules/hooks/session-start.md. It points you at the latest session summary and the error index so you resume with context instead of re-reading the world.
  2. Before writing code → load only the rules/ file and context/ file the task needs (skills/context-budget). Read a file before you edit it. State what you understand before changing it.
  3. When something breaks → run skills/debug-fix. It checks the error ledger FIRST (common errors, then recent) before inventing a new fix.
  4. Risky logic (auth, money, access control, anything irreversible) → run skills/tdd: write the failing test first.
  5. Before committing → run hooks/pre-commit.md (secret scan + lint/build + rules check).
  6. End of session → run scripts/session-save.sh so the next session inherits your work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 1,418 tokens per session scan A 829f3654d187

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smartstack AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oreum-ai/smartstack (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,418 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 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 2026-08-31.

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