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.
npx agentmods add instructions/plumbkit/plumb/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plumbkit/plumbWhat 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 | $0.01784 | $0.01784 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00892 | $0.00892 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00357 | $0.00357 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00178 | $0.00178 |
Grade A, and why
plumb 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 yesterday.
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 — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Plumb — Agent Instructions
Source of truth: edit
AGENTS.mdonly.CLAUDE.mdandGEMINI.mdare relative symlinks to it; never edit, replace, or unlink those paths.
This is the always-loaded engineering contract for the public Plumb codebase. Keep rules here and reference detail in docs/; make check-brief enforces the budget.
Working contract
- Use Plumb's lane. When Plumb exposes a capability, use its MCP tool instead of native file, search, shell, or Git tools. Native tools bypass Plumb's concurrency guards, diagnostics, and session tracking. Exceptions are capabilities Plumb does not cover and read-only commodity tools hidden by a lean profile.
- Bootstrap and guard writes. Call
session_startfirst. Afterread_file, use Plumb edits and pass itsmtimeorsha256asexpected_mtimeorexpected_shawhen a concurrent writer may intervene. Prefer configuredrun_taskslots over raw build/test/lint commands. - Trust live descriptions. Tool behaviour and schemas come from
tools/list;session_startsupplies client-specific guidance. This brief is orientation, not a second tool reference. - Avoid version drift. Read
VERSIONandCHANGELOG.mdfor the current version.
Purpose and invariants
Plumb gives coding agents an IDE intelligence layer over MCP: LSP semantics, a tree-sitter topology index, project memory, and a complete safe-filesystem toolkit. plumb serve is a resilient stdio proxy in front of a shared daemon.
- LSP-correct semantics. Writes notify language servers through
workspace/didChangeWatchedFiles; capabilities are negotiated, including server-initiated registration. - Concurrency-safe durability. Write tools use per-path locks, optimistic checks, atomic rename, and the shared durable-write path.
- Per-session isolation. Read tracking, rate limits, and caches belong to a connection or declared agent, never accidental process globals.
- Configurable safety. Compiled defaults, global config, project config, and environment overrides resolve with explicit provenance.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 89 lines · 1,784 tokens per session scan A f2a4ee88657b
plumb AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository plumbkit/plumb (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,784 tokens to every session, about $0.0089 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 2026-08-31.
Other instructions, from other repositories
yayamlls AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for home-operations/yayamlls, covering agents.md: yayamlls, working in this repo: ai usage, commits, and safety, baseline, project layout and errors.
yayamlls CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for home-operations/yayamlls, a project described as: YAML language server in Go. Schema-driven diagnostics, completion, hover; pluggable rendering for Flux HelmRelease and Kustomization via flate.
pi-go CLAUDE.md
Instructions for dimetron/pi-go, covering claude.md — pi-go, work in a git worktree, not the primary checkout, where worktrees live, what pi-go's agent already does, and why it matters and commits: all commits must be signed.
glowbom-oss AGENTS.md
Instructions for glowbom/glowbom-oss, covering workspace instructions, public repository boundary and commit messages.
GoSQLX CLAUDE.md
Instructions for ajitpratap0/GoSQLX, covering claude.md, project overview, architecture, core components and token processing pipeline.
witness AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for IngTian/witness, covering agents.md, what this is, build, test, run, architecture (where things live) and runtime model (important invariants).