phdtaketaketake: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

phdtaketaketake AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake. It costs 697 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Agent instructions for phdtaketaketake, a toolkit for matching PhD applicants with academic advisors and improving application materials. A PhD is a research degree, and an advisor is the professor who supervises that research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding and ranking advisors, evaluating connections and application strength, planning outreach, and optimizing a CV for a target professor.
Why use it?
It defines the evidence and scoring process needed to compare potential advisors and tailor an application.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on phdtaketaketake 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 phdtaketaketake configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake. 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/powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake

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Security

Grade A, and why

phdtaketaketake 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 9d 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 · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

phdtaketaketake — agent instructions

This file is the entry point that OpenAI Codex (and other agents that discover persistent instructions via AGENTS.md per the Codex convention) uses to find this skill. It is intentionally a short pointer, not a copy of SKILL.md. Maintaining two copies of the skill contract creates drift; the canonical contract lives in SKILL.md, and Cursor / Codex / any future host reads that file or gets a generated short-pointer like this one.

Use

When the user asks about PhD advisor matching, application triage, PI ranking, connection-first evaluation, evidence-backed application strategy, or PhD-application CV optimization, follow the workflow defined in SKILL.md:

  • Workflow A (advisor matching): Steps 1–8.5 — gather profile, generate discovery plan, find candidates, compute connection edges, score with the 5-layer pipeline (CAPEG → application_strength → risk_adjusted → difficulty_adjusted → strategy bucket), present cards.
  • Workflow B (CV optimization): Steps CV-1–CV-6 — read the bundled LaTeX template, fill from user-typed input, optionally reorder for a target PI from match.json, compile.

Hard rules (non-negotiable for both workflows)

  1. Connection-firstw_C > w_A in every tier. Verified academic network beats h-index.
  2. Evidence-first — every claim traces to a real source the agent actually fetched. Four-state semantics: Verified / Verified-empty / Missing / Blocked. Strict mode rejects unsourced claims.
  3. No invention — never fabricate candidate facts, advisor connections, publication records, GPA conversions, opportunity signals, CV experiences, papers, or skills.
  4. CV source-of-truth — every fact in the rendered cv.tex traces to something the user explicitly provided in conversation. Target PIs from match.json drive ordering decisions; their names never appear in the CV body.
  5. Output is a relative-fit index, not an admission probability. Surface what's strong, what's weak, what's uncertain — never claim a numeric admit chance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 697 tokens per session scan A 8e5e49f47366

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phdtaketaketake AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository powerofjinbo/phdtaketaketake (32 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 697 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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.

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