Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to projectbluefin/dakota. 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/projectbluefin/dakota/testing/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/projectbluefin/dakotaWrote 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/projectbluefin/dakota/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/projectbluefin/dakota/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/projectbluefin/dakota/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/projectbluefin/dakota/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/projectbluefin/dakota/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 | $0.01226 | $0.01226 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00490 | $0.00490 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00245 | $0.00245 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00123 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
dakota 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 1mo 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 — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dakota agent guide
Dakota is Project Bluefin's bootc OCI desktop image, assembled from source with
BuildStream 2. This is not the RPM-based Bluefin build: do not use dnf,
rpm-ostree, COPRs, Containerfile package overlays, or post-build package
installation. Make image changes through BST elements.
Project skills live in .agents/skills/ and are discovered by Pi and GitHub
Copilot. Load only the skill matching the task; do not read every skill.
Factory model invariants
- Scoped Documentation: Correct durable, task-relevant guidance when the work reveals an error or missing constraint. Do not manufacture documentation changes for every session or expand a read-only task into writes. Preparing changes does not authorize committing or publishing them.
- Docs Are the Model: Skills and documentation are evergreen operating procedures. Never append dated session logs (
2026-08-01: we found X), running issue numbers, or resolved checklists. Codify learnings as timeless architectural invariants and failure modes. - Documentation Freshness: Verify external syntax against current official documentation and cite the source when updating guidance. Context7 is optional when available; direct official documentation is equally valid. Do not require unavailable tools.
Skill routing
| Task / Domain | Skill to Load |
|---|---|
| BST elements, junctions, patches, or build graph errors | dakota-buildstream |
| GitHub Actions workflows, matrix builds, CI publication | dakota-ci |
| GNOME Shell extensions, ESM modules, dconf defaults | dakota-extensions |
| Task-relevant documentation corrections and skill audits | dakota-factory |
| OCI layer composition, boot testing, VM checks, OTA | dakota-image |
| Native Go, Rust, Zig, C, or binary packaging in BST | dakota-packaging |
| Stable promotion, image signing, cosign, rollback | dakota-release |
| Reviewing PRs, triage, user-donated reports, labels | dakota-review |
End-user recipes in files/just-overrides/default.just |
dakota-ujust |
| Host Homebrew prefix, GCC/Make invariants, services | dakota-workstation |
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · -21 tokens per session 56039dd72403
- 1mo ago Changed · +21 lines · +395 tokens per session ca99088f6751
- 2mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 852 tokens per session scan A ed6bc5a8dd49
dakota AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository projectbluefin/dakota (193 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,226 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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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