ADD AGENTS.md

Instructions for ADD, an AI-driven development process in which the agent drives implementation while a person sets direction and checks the result. It organizes each task into a specification, a contract, tests, and scenarios before building.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to orient an agent in an ADD project, identify the current phase, draft and verify task specifications, and coordinate worker and adviser agents.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined place to resume work and rules for keeping approved requirements and tests intact. It also stops work when a security issue is found.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/pilotspace/add/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pilotspace/ADD

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 398 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 398 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00398 $0.00398
Opus 5 $0.00199 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00080 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash df0bc9e37b3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ADD 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

ADD — how to work in this repo

ADD (AI-Driven Development) — you, the AI, drive the build; the human owns direction and verification. Works for any agent (Claude · Cursor · Copilot · Codex) through the CLI alone. Before you touch code, orient:

  1. python3 .add/tooling/add.py status — your resume point; read it first each session.
  2. .add/PROJECT.md — the thin read-first index (goal · invariants: · pointers into .add/specs/, the 5-DD standing picture); drill into a spec on demand.
  3. python3 .add/tooling/add.py guide — names the current phase + its guide; work ONLY that phase.

Each task drafts the specification bundle (Spec · Contract · Tests & Scenarios) — ONE human approval at the frozen contract, then a self-driving build→verify run. Non-negotiable: Never weaken a test or edit a frozen contract to pass a build; a security finding is always HARD-STOP. PROJECT.md invariants: bind EVERY task — the artifact must hold under the BARE declared runtime.

Roster (agents/*.md): add-worker runs each beat (direction · build · verify · persona); add-advisor is the second mind it spawns to plan, pressure-test, or resolve a delegable ambiguity. Each loads the beat's guide + the best-fit .add/personas/ persona — personas carry the expertise, the agent carries the discipline.

On Claude Code the add skill drives this loop; other agents follow the three steps. Book: https://pilotspace.github.io/ADD/. Generated by add.py sync-guidelines — edit outside the markers.

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 398 tokens per session scan A df0bc9e37b3f

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ADD AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pilotspace/ADD (19 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 398 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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 2026-08-30.