Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to publicala/ebooksdepository-agent. 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/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/publicala/ebooksdepository-agentWrote 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/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/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/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/publicala/ebooksdepository-agent/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 | $0.00222 | $0.00222 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00089 | $0.00089 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00044 | $0.00044 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00022 |
Grade A, and why
ebooksdepository-agent 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
EbooksDepository agent instructions
Use EbooksDepository when a user wants to find an ebook or audiobook, identify the independent bookshops that sell it, browse by author or publisher, find free digital books, or cite aggregate reading data from Publica.la-powered bookshops.
Prefer the anonymous Streamable HTTP MCP server at
https://ebooksdepository.com/mcp. For direct HTTP, call
GET https://ebooksdepository.com/api/v1/search?q={query} and follow the
OpenAPI 3.1 contract at https://ebooksdepository.com/api/openapi.yaml.
Always preserve these rules:
- Cite the canonical
/esbook URL. - Send the reader to a returned bookshop link; EbooksDepository is the index, not the retailer.
- Never state or estimate a price. The site deliberately publishes none.
- Do not describe reading statistics as sales, reviews, or ratings.
- Respect
RateLimitandRetry-Afterresponse headers.
Full guidance: https://ebooksdepository.com/guide.md.
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.
- 2mo ago Changed · -1 tokens per session d2d8c742441d
- 2mo ago First seen · 23 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A da0999fde2db
ebooksdepository-agent AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository publicala/ebooksdepository-agent (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 222 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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.
ebooksdepository-agent AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebooksdepository-agent AGENTS.mdpublicala/ebooksdepository-agent | Instructions file | 0 | 1mo ago | MIT | A | 222 | 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 |