Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to pedroknigge/arkgate. 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/pedroknigge/arkgate/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedroknigge/arkgateWrote 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/pedroknigge/arkgate/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/pedroknigge/arkgate/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pedroknigge/arkgate/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/pedroknigge/arkgate/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/pedroknigge/arkgate/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 | $0.08886 | $0.08886 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03554 | $0.03554 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01777 | $0.01777 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00889 | $0.00889 |
Grade A, and why
arkgate 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 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.
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 — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ArkGate Enforcement (self-hosted)
Identity — read this first (every agent)
Git / clone only. This file is not published in the npm package. Consumers who
npm install arkgatenever see it. Do not copy this Identity block into generated consumerAGENTS.md, README, or other surfaces that ship with the library.
This working tree is the mother / canonical development repository for the ArkGate library.
| Fact | Meaning for you |
|---|---|
| What this is | Source of truth for product ArkGate, npm package arkgate, dual CLIs arkgate* + ark*, MCP, published skills (templates/skills/), and the optional runtime kernel. |
| What this is not | A normal app that depends on arkgate. Consumer monorepos (product apps, galleries, client projects) are downstream — never treat this tree as “just another project with arkgate installed.” |
| Where you are | Library authoring root. Edits here ship (or dogfood) the package itself. |
| Contract shape | Self-hosted 4-layer profile in ark.config.json (DomainModel / Kernel / Tooling / FrameworkAdapters) — not the default 11-layer consumer starter. |
| Dogfood | Gates run on this tree via local bin/ + dist/ after npm run build. Prefer workspace CLIs over a stale global arkgate. |
If the task is “improve arkgate the product,” you are in the right place. If the task is “adopt Ark on a business app,” you are usually in a different repository that lists arkgate as a dependency.
Project knowledge map
Code and manifests are the source of truth for implementation details and for whether a structural claim is true. Documentation is organized in three public lanes — use the map, not every historical file:
| Lane | Entry | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Use | docs/use.md | Anyone shipping with AI |
| Develop | docs/develop.md | Integrate gates, hosts, CI, brownfield |
| Contribute | CONTRIBUTING.md | Improve this library |
| Docs hub | docs/README.md | Full navigation |
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 · +10 tokens per session 0ac0685f9c82
- 4d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session c3efa57325b2
- 6d ago Changed · +1 lines · +37 tokens per session 3dfd63432f94
- 9d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session 7562d221b103
- 10d ago Changed 570af4db80df
- 18d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session c794ee1a28cb
- 23d ago Changed · +8 lines · +554 tokens per session 837014f548a9
- 24d ago Changed · +8 lines · +348 tokens per session 2c4c47e25656
- 25d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session 6836a78f92f2
- 27d ago First seen · 250 lines · 7,897 tokens per session scan A e17cfceab96b
arkgate AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pedroknigge/arkgate (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 8,886 tokens to every session, about $0.0355 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
deepseek-harness AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).