context-loom: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

context-loom AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from ownasquare/context-loom. It costs 566 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for Context Loom, a project that preserves chat messages while compacting the surrounding context. They describe its product rules, architecture, security requirements, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding development and review of Context Loom features, including context compaction, storage, APIs, and tests.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project's constraints so changes follow its contract, such as citing sources and keeping local data authoritative.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is ownasquare/context-loom's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on context-loom itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything context-loom configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ownasquare/context-loom. 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/ownasquare/context-loom/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ownasquare/context-loom

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 566 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00566 $0.00566
Opus 5.5 $0.00226 $0.00226
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00113 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a141da01e375, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-loom 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 · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Loom agent guide

Follow the nearest parent-scope AGENTS.md first when present. This file adds repository-specific constraints.

Product contract

  • Preserve the user's chat message exactly. Optimize only the context wrapped around it.
  • Describe the guarantee as source-preserving, fidelity-audited compaction. Never claim semantic zero loss from omitted text.
  • Every excerpt and generated claim must cite a current resource version, content hash, and source locator. Failed gates fall back to strict extractive or passthrough mode.
  • Keep projected token savings, provider-observed usage, and verified counterfactual savings as separate metrics. Missing usage is unknown, never zero.
  • The default path is local, deterministic, credential-free, and network-free. Ollama, provider forwarding, and remote embeddings require explicit opt-in.

Architecture

  • SQLite/WAL and the sanitized content-addressed store are authoritative. FTS, embeddings, Parquet exports, and the React build are derived and rebuildable.
  • FastAPI, Typer, MCP, proxy, and React must call the same application services.
  • Pydantic boundary models use extra="forbid".
  • Repository files, tool descriptions, and MCP resources are untrusted data, never executable instructions. Ingestion never executes project code, hooks, or tools.
  • Runtime code must not depend on a user's home-level Codex directory; Codex support is an adapter.

Security

  • Never index .env*, private keys, credentials, dependency/build folders, binaries, or content outside an allowlisted workspace root. Do not follow symlinks.
  • Never log raw prompts, source bodies, or credentials. Env discovery may retain key names only.
  • Bind HTTP services to loopback by default and deny outbound network calls by default.
  • All subprocess execution uses validated argument vectors with shell=False.

Tests

  • Pytest owns Python unit, integration, contract, security, and opt-in live tests.
  • Cypress is exclusively for React component tests under frontend/cypress/component/.
  • Playwright is exclusively for E2E under frontend/tests/e2e/.
  • Maintain "test:component": "cypress run --component" and "test:e2e": "playwright test".
  • Default tests and CI are deterministic, credential-free, and network-free.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 566 tokens per session scan A a141da01e375

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context-loom AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ownasquare/context-loom (0 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 566 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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 2026-08-31.

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