Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to panoptes/panoptes-utils. 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/panoptes/panoptes-utils/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panoptes/panoptes-utilsWrote 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/panoptes/panoptes-utils/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/panoptes/panoptes-utils/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/panoptes/panoptes-utils/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.07145 | $0.07145 |
| Opus 5 | $0.03572 | $0.03572 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.01429 | $0.01429 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00715 | $0.00715 |
Grade A, and why
panoptes-utils 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 yesterday.
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 — 803 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AI Agent Guidelines for PANOPTES Utilities
This document provides guidelines for AI coding agents working with the PANOPTES Utilities (panoptes-utils) codebase. It is designed to be tool-agnostic and applicable to any AI assistant working on this project.
Project Overview
PANOPTES Utilities is a Python library providing astronomical utilities for the PANOPTES ecosystem. It includes CLI tools for image processing, a file-based configuration store, a telemetry server, and various utility modules for astronomical data processing. This library serves as the foundation for other PANOPTES projects like POCS.
Key Characteristics:
- Language: Python 3.12+ (type hints expected)
- Architecture: Modular utility library with CLI tools and services
- Domain: Astronomy, image processing, configuration management
- Testing: pytest with high coverage requirements
- Build System: UV (modern Python package and environment manager)
- Code Style: Ruff for linting and formatting
Essential Reading
Before making changes, review these documents:
- README:
README.md- Installation and basic usage - Contributing:
CONTRIBUTING.md- Development workflow reference - Configuration:
pyproject.toml- Project dependencies and configuration - Documentation:
docs/- Detailed documentation on modules
Project Structure
panoptes-utils/
├── src/panoptes/utils/ # Main source code
│ ├── cli/ # Command-line interfaces
│ │ └── main.py # Main CLI entry point
│ ├── config/ # Configuration server and client
│ │ ├── cli.py # Config server CLI
│ │ ├── client.py # Config client
│ │ └── server.py # Config server implementation
│ ├── images/ # Image processing utilities
│ ├── serial/ # Serial device communication
│ ├── database/ # Legacy database utilities (PanDB/PanFileDB)
│ ├── telemetry/ # Telemetry server, client, and models
│ │ ├── client.py # TelemetryClient (HTTP client + PanDB-compat interface)
│ │ ├── server.py # FastAPI+uvicorn telemetry server
│ │ ├── models.py # TelemetryEvent Pydantic model
│ │ └── migrate.py # PanFileDB → NDJSON migration logic
│ ├── time.py # Time utilities (CountdownTimer, etc.)
│ ├── serializers.py # Data serialization
│ ├── horizon.py # Horizon calculations
│ └── utils.py # General utilities
├── tests/ # Test suite
│ ├── conftest.py # Pytest configuration and fixtures
│ ├── testing.yaml # Test configuration file
│ ├── config/ # Config tests
│ ├── images/ # Image processing tests
│ └── data/ # Test data files
├── docs/ # MkDocs documentation
├── examples/ # Example notebooks and scripts
└── pyproject.toml # Project configuration and dependencies
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.
- yesterday First seen · 803 lines · 7,145 tokens per session scan A c8cf92f7a192
panoptes-utils AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository panoptes/panoptes-utils (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,145 tokens to every session, about $0.0357 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 2026-09-04.
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