What is laws AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for using lit, an agent-native issue-tracking workflow. They require the agent to run lit quickstart before making decisions in the repository.

Use them when working in this repository with lit, especially before handling issues, planning changes, or editing project files.

They ensure the agent follows the repository's required ticketing process and understands its local rules before changing or reviewing work.

How promptctl/laws configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to promptctl/laws. 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/promptctl/laws/master/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/promptctl/laws

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/promptctl/laws/agents-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/promptctl/laws/agents-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/promptctl/laws/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/promptctl/laws/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/promptctl/laws/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/promptctl/laws/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 102 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 102 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.

Token cost

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	$0.00102	$0.00102
Opus 5.5	$0.00041	$0.00041
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00020
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00010

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 93b613074d82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

laws 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

laws CLAUDE.md — 94% identical, 2 lines differ

AGENTS.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS

lit Agent-Native Workflow

This repository uses lit for agent-native issue tracking.

Start by running lit quickstart to load the workflow instructions. It prints how tickets are found, created, updated, and closed here, so running it first means the rest of your work follows the conventions this repo expects. It's a quick, read-only command — no need to check in before running it.

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.

1mo ago Changed · -11 tokens per session 93b613074d82
2mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A dc6b1e60b822

Subscribe to this mod's changes

laws AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository promptctl/laws (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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.

Project management

laws AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
laws AGENTS.mdpromptctl/laws	Instructions file	6	3d ago	MIT	A	102	Codex, OpenCode
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

laws: Instructions file for Codex