Outline Apps is a pair of applications for creating and using VPN access: Outline Manager manages VPN servers, while Outline Client connects people to them. Individuals and organizations use it to share VPN access across desktop and mobile devices, and the catalogue entries provide instructions for working with the project.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to OutlineFoundation/outline-apps. 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/OutlineFoundation/outline-apps/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineFoundation/outline-appsWrote 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/outlinefoundation/outline-apps/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/outlinefoundation/outline-apps/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/outlinefoundation/outline-apps/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/outlinefoundation/outline-apps/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/outlinefoundation/outline-apps/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 | $0.00994 | $0.00994 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00398 | $0.00398 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00199 | $0.00199 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00099 | $0.00099 |
Grade A, and why
outline-apps 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Welcome to the Outline Monorepo!
This document provides a guide for AI and human agents working with the Outline codebase.
Before making changes, read CONTRIBUTING.md. Its rules apply to every contribution, including AI-generated ones.
AI Contributions
- AI-generated contributions are allowed, but keep in mind that the project maintainers also have access to generally available commercial LLMs. Taking a bug, one-shotting a prompt to fix it, and sending us the result as a pull request often isn't helpful, and can create more work for maintainers instead of solving problems. Verify that a fix is sensible, and test it as described in
CONTRIBUTING.md, before sending it our way. - We suggest tagging your commits and pull requests with information about the AI tools you used, such as a
Co-authored-by: [Agent]trailer in commit messages or aGenerated with [Agent]line in pull request descriptions. This helps us understand your development process.
Repository Structure
The Outline monorepo is organized into three main components:
/client: The Outline Client application, available on all major platforms. Seeclient/AGENTS.md./server_manager: A graphical application to create and manage Outline Servers. Seeserver_manager/AGENTS.md./infrastructure: The build system and shared TypeScript utilities. Seeinfrastructure/AGENTS.md.
The npm run action Command
The primary entry point for all development tasks is npm run action <path>, which resolves to .action.sh or .action.mjs files in the repo. Run npm run action list to see all available actions. Pass flags after --:
npm run action client/src/cordova/setup macos -- --buildMode=release
Common Actions
npm run action list: Lists all available actions.npm run action client/web/start: Starts a dev server for the shared web UI.npm run action server_manager/www/start: Starts a dev server for the Manager UI.npm run action <component>/test: Runs tests (e.g.npm run action client/web/test).npm run action <component>/build: Builds a component (e.g.npm run action client/electron/build linux -- --arch=x64).
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +7 lines · +197 tokens per session 82e36028c804
- 2mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 797 tokens per session scan A 68a558ae2d02
outline-apps AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository OutlineFoundation/outline-apps (9,271 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 994 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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.
outline-apps AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outline-apps AGENTS.mdOutlineFoundation/outline-apps | Instructions file | 9.3k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 994 | 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 |