Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to P4ST4S/mcp-audit. 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/P4ST4S/mcp-audit/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P4ST4S/mcp-auditWrote 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/p4st4s/mcp-audit/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/p4st4s/mcp-audit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/p4st4s/mcp-audit/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/p4st4s/mcp-audit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/p4st4s/mcp-audit/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 | $0.02308 | $0.02308 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00923 | $0.00923 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00462 | $0.00462 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00231 | $0.00231 |
Grade A, and why
mcp-audit 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 9d 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 — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guidance for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Jules, Amp, etc.) contributing to mcp-audit. Read this in full before opening a PR.
mcp-audit is a security and observability proxy for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, written in Go. It records signed audit trails, enforces policies, applies rate limits, and exports OTLP traces + Prometheus metrics. See README.md for what it does and why; this file is about how to work on it.
Required agent skills
Agents MUST read and apply the following project-local skills whenever their trigger applies. Read the relevant SKILL.md before starting that work and follow its referenced guidance as needed; merely listing a skill is not using it.
| Skill | Required when |
|---|---|
golang-pro |
Writing, changing, or reviewing Go code, including tests. Pay particular attention to error handling, context cancellation, goroutine lifetimes, and race safety. |
differential-review |
Reviewing code changes before reporting them ready for a PR. Inspect affected callers, security boundaries, compatibility, and test coverage; address findings before handoff. Documentation-only and formatting-only changes are exempt. |
variant-analysis |
Fixing a confirmed bug or vulnerability. Search for the same root cause across related packages and transports, and report which matches are real. It is not required without a known bug. |
These requirements apply to every agent harness, including tools that do not discover .agents/skills/ automatically. In that case, explicitly load the files into the agent's context. If a required skill is missing, follow the project-only setup in CONTRIBUTING.md. If it cannot be loaded, report the blocker rather than claiming the required review is complete.
Repository rules in this file and STABILITY.md take precedence over generic skill recommendations. In particular, skills do not introduce a new coverage threshold, require adding golangci-lint, or justify new abstractions or dependencies on their own. The build, test, and lint commands below remain required for code 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.
- 9d ago Changed · +16 lines · +444 tokens per session 27b6880bb0f5
- 10d ago Changed 6e7cf52451b6
- 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 1,864 tokens per session scan A 521c51306fcb
mcp-audit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository P4ST4S/mcp-audit (8 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,308 tokens to every session, about $0.0092 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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