DevMind: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

DevMind AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from pkailas/DevMind. It costs 692 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for DevMind, a local coding assistant that uses a local language model to read, search, edit, create, and run code.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for working on DevMind’s C# engine, replaceable user interfaces, conversation storage, and local model integrations.
Why use it?
They explain the current architecture and technology choices while warning the agent to ignore an obsolete Visual Studio extension design.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is pkailas/DevMind's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on DevMind itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything DevMind configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pkailas/DevMind. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkailas/DevMind/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pkailas/DevMind

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 692 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1163fed1e2ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

DevMind 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.

AGENTS.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Agent context for the DevMind repository. This file explains what the project is, how it is structured, and how to build it. Tool-use rules and the task-completion contract are supplied separately in the system prompt — this file is project context only and should not repeat them.

What DevMind is

DevMind is a local, LLM-powered agentic coding assistant. It runs an agentic loop — read, search, patch, create, run shell/build — against a target codebase, driven by a local model.

Architecture: decoupled engine + swappable UI skins. The durable engine lives in C# and is UI-agnostic; the user interface is a thin, replaceable skin over it. When a UI framework hits a wall, the skin is swapped — the engine does not move.

DevMind is not a Visual Studio VSIX extension. That was an earlier, retired architecture (now under _archive/). Disregard any VSIX, WPF, .NET Framework, or msbuild DevMind.csproj references you encounter — they are obsolete.

Stack

  • Language / runtime: C# on .NET 10 (net10.0)
  • Persistence: SQL Server for conversation history, via IHistoryStore (SqlServer / Sqlite / Null providers)
  • Default branch: master

Repository layout

  • DevMind.Core — the engine. UI-agnostic. Agentic loop (LoopDriver, AgenticExecutor), LlmClient, context management, PatchEngine, LSP router, ShellRunner, MemoryManager, IHistoryStore. Boundary interfaces: IAgenticHost (side effects) and ILoopCallbacks (UI-state hooks).
  • DevMind.McpServer — the MCP server exposing the tool set. References DevMind.Core one-way.
  • DevMind.Cli — console UI skin; reference implementation of the host interfaces (ConsoleAgenticHost).
  • DevMind.TUI — Terminal.Gui v2 UI skin. Active development target.
  • _archive/ — retired projects (old VSIX, diagnostic harnesses). Do not modify and do not treat as current.

Build & run

Build the solution:

dotnet build

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 692 tokens per session scan A 1163fed1e2ac

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DevMind AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pkailas/DevMind (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 692 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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.

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