Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to prolific-oss/cli. 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/prolific-oss/cli/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prolific-oss/cliWrote 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/prolific-oss/cli/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/prolific-oss/cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/prolific-oss/cli/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/prolific-oss/cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/prolific-oss/cli/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 | $0.03324 | $0.03324 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01330 | $0.01330 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00665 | $0.00665 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00332 | $0.00332 |
Grade A, and why
cli 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 17d 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 — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions for AI coding agents working on the Prolific CLI.
Project Overview
Go CLI for the Prolific research platform — used by researchers to manage studies, participants, and data collection via the Prolific API. Module: github.com/prolific-oss/cli. Binary: prolific. Go 1.26.
Stack: Cobra (CLI framework), Bubbletea (TUI), Viper (configuration). See DEVELOPMENT.md for the full development guide.
Key commands:
make install # Install deps, git hooks, and tools (run once after cloning)
make build # Build binary
make test # Run tests with coverage (always run after changes)
make lint # Run linter (always run before committing)
make test-gen-mock # Regenerate mocks (required after interface changes)
make all # Full workflow: clean, install, build, test
Tests run entirely with mocks. PROLIFIC_TOKEN is not needed for tests.
Architecture
cmd/ Cobra commands (one package per API resource)
├── {resource}/ Each resource gets its own package
│ ├── {resource}.go Parent command (groups sub-commands)
│ ├── {action}.go Action command implementation
│ └── {action}_test.go Tests
├── shared/ Shared utilities
└── root.go Main CLI initialization and command registration
client/ API interface and HTTP client
├── client.go API interface and Client implementation
├── payloads.go Request payload structs
└── responses.go Response types
model/ Domain models (one package per entity)
ui/ Rendering layer
├── ui.go Common helpers (headings, money, dates, counters)
└── {resource}/ Per-resource renderers
mock_client/ Generated mocks (do not edit manually)
version/ Build-time version info
docs/examples/ Study templates (JSON/YAML)
scripts/ Git hooks and changelog tooling
Code Patterns
Command Structure
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.
- 17d ago Changed · +20 lines · +216 tokens per session 3d969a32132d
- 1mo ago First seen · 310 lines · 3,108 tokens per session scan A 8fd01c6a79ab
cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository prolific-oss/cli (14 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,324 tokens to every session, about $0.0133 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 2026-09-03.
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