Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to pantheon-org/tekhne. 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/pantheon-org/tekhne/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhneWrote 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/pantheon-org/tekhne/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pantheon-org/tekhne/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pantheon-org/tekhne/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/pantheon-org/tekhne/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pantheon-org/tekhne/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 | $0.03223 | $0.03223 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01289 | $0.01289 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00645 | $0.00645 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00322 | $0.00322 |
Grade B, and why
tekhne AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 today.
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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
`--budget-chars` fixes the budget outright; `--chars-per-token` (default 4) changes the derivation. Precedence is `--budget-chars`, then `--context-tokens`, then `--fraction` alone (a band), then the 8000 fallback. `--fr How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tekhne Agent Collaboration Guide
This file defines how LLM agents should work in this repository.
Project Purpose
- Maintain a curated collection of reusable agent skills under
skills/. - Keep skill content modular, discoverable, and easy to lint/validate.
- Prefer small, targeted edits over broad rewrites.
Repository Map
skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/SKILL.md: Primary entry point for a skill.skills/<domain>/<tool>/{generator,validator}/SKILL.md: Generator/validator pairs (consolidated under<tool>/tile.json).skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/AGENTS.md: Optional deep navigation for that skill.skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/references/: Focused reference documents.skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/scripts/: Utility scripts used by a skill.skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/templates/: Reusable templates (mostly YAML).skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/schemas/: JSON schemas for validation..context/: Working notes and generated analysis artifacts.- Tools live in their own repositories (
pantheon-skill-auditor,pantheon-journal,pantheon-adr, sharingagentic-harness-dev-kit); this repository pins the released auditor inmise.toml. probes/: Invocation probes, one JSON file per skill (see Invocation probes below);probes/baselines/holds committed score reports.scripts/catalog/: TypeScript catalog generator forREADME.mdand the docs tiles page.
Note: Generator/validator pairs are consolidated at the tool level (e.g. terraform-generator and terraform-validator share skills/infrastructure/terraform/tile.json).
Domain Organization
13 domains: ci-cd/, infrastructure/, repository-mgmt/, development/, agentic-harness/, testing/, software-engineering/, observability/, documentation/, package-mgmt/, project-mgmt/, specialized/, comedy/.
See skill-taxonomy.md in the auditor repository for classification criteria.
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.
- today Changed · -9 lines · -12 tokens per session 4db84fca87a1
- 14d ago Changed · +45 lines · +1,282 tokens per session scan A → B b4c603e4e37f
- 16d ago Changed · +2 lines · +127 tokens per session f29753ec4883
- 17d ago Changed · +8 tokens per session fccafec564ae
- 19d ago Changed · -8 lines · -59 tokens per session aa9ce50bacee
- 29d ago Changed · +18 lines · +266 tokens per session e74f7ef7b25d
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 tokens per session accdc68d3e8c
- 1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 1,609 tokens per session scan A 32509031837c
tekhne AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3,223 tokens to every session, about $0.0129 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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