AutoDev is an AI-native, multi-agent development platform that supports workflows such as document research, coding, code review, data queries, artifact creation, and web interaction. It runs across environments including IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code, command-line tools, desktop and mobile applications, web runtimes, and servers. The catalogue skills extend its coding-agent workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to phodal/auto-dev. 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/phodal/auto-dev/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phodal/auto-devWrote 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/phodal/auto-dev/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/phodal/auto-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/phodal/auto-dev/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/phodal/auto-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/phodal/auto-dev/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 | $0.00623 | $0.00623 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00249 | $0.00249 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00062 | $0.00062 |
Grade A, and why
auto-dev 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Core Rules
- Kotlin Multiplatform: Always consider all platforms: JS, WASM, Desktop JVM, Android, iOS
- Build & Test: Always run build and tests before completing tasks
- Preserve Intent: If an existing solution doesn't work, preserve its intent
- Module Clean: Use
./gradlew :xxx:cleaninstead of global clean, avoid polluting global caches. - Test Scripts: Put temporary scripts under
docs/test-scripts - Logs: Check
~/.autodev/logs/autodev-app.logfor debugging - Code comments should be in English, for documentation and user-facing strings should be followed user's langauge
KMP Best Practices
- Use
expect/actualfor platform-specific code, for examplePlatform - Avoid emoji and UTF-8 in source code which WASM doesn't support
- @JsExport: Use concrete classes (not interfaces),
Promise(notFlow) - i18n: Run
./gradlew :mpp-ui:generateI18n4kFiles
Renderer System
When modifying CodingAgentRenderer, update ALL implementations:
- Kotlin:
DefaultCodingAgentRenderer,ComposeRenderer,JewelRenderer,ServerSideRenderer,JsRendererAdapter - TypeScript:
BaseRenderer.ts,CliRenderer.ts,ServerRenderer.ts,TuiRenderer.ts - VSCode:
mpp-vscode/src/bridge/mpp-core.ts,mpp-vscode/src/providers/chat-view.ts - JVM CLI:
CodingCliRenderer,ConsoleRenderer
Design System
- CLI/TUI: Use
semanticInk/semanticChalkfrommpp-ui/src/jsMain/typescript/design-system/ - Compose: Use
AutoDevColorsorMaterialTheme.colorScheme - NO hardcoded colors - always use design tokens
- Docs:
docs/design-system-color.md,docs/design-system-compose.md
Quick Commands
CLI Test:
./gradlew :mpp-core:jsNodeProductionLibraryDistribution
cd mpp-ui && npm run build && npm run start
IDEA Plugin:
cd mpp-idea && ../gradlew compileKotlin
cd mpp-idea && ../gradlew test --tests "cc.unitmesh.devins.idea.renderer.JewelRendererTest"
cd mpp-idea && ../gradlew buildPlugin
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 623 tokens per session scan A 51552b111ad7
auto-dev AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository phodal/auto-dev (4,564 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 623 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 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 2026-08-30.
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next.js AGENTS.md
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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).
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.