Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to qwerfunch/cladding. 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/qwerfunch/cladding/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qwerfunch/claddingWrote 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/qwerfunch/cladding/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/qwerfunch/cladding/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/qwerfunch/cladding/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/qwerfunch/cladding/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/qwerfunch/cladding/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 | $0.01369 | $0.01369 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00548 | $0.00548 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00274 | $0.00274 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00137 | $0.00137 |
Grade A, and why
cladding 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 — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file is the shared cross-tool entry point for AI coding agents working on cladding (OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Continue, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, JetBrains Junie, Windsurf, and other agents.md hosts). CLAUDE.md is the Claude Code maintainer addendum; it does not replace this shared contract or GOVERNANCE.md.
1. Project
cladding is the reference implementation of the Ironclad standard. Multi-agent dev harness; 15 Iron Law stages; 41 drift detectors; polyglot toolchain (9 languages). Successor to harness-boot.
2. Setup
End-user install:
npm install -g cladding
Contributor install (clones the repo and pulls dev dependencies):
git clone https://github.com/qwerfunch/cladding && cd cladding && npm install
Requires Node ≥ 20 to develop — the test runner and linter need it. The published tool itself runs on Node ≥ 16.
3. Verify before pushing
Run all four. The first three must pass cleanly; the fourth must be green (the 15-stage gate) on a clean working tree.
npm test
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
node bin/clad.mjs check
4. Code & comment style
Apply Google Style Guides for every language cladding supports, and the comment policy summarised below. The full per-language table and the six comment principles live in docs/code-style.md — that's the SSoT; this section is the entry pointer.
Comment policy in one paragraph: why over what, full doc-tag set on every export (TSDoc / JSDoc / pydoc / rustdoc / godoc / Javadoc), spec linkage via @see spec/features/F-NNN.yaml AC-NNN or @see ironclad-design/<section>.md whenever a decision traces to an external source, explicit invariants when non-obvious, self-documenting code first, no TODO markers / no date-bound notes / no comments that paraphrase the code.
5. PR policy
Branch off develop, never main, and open ordinary PRs against develop. A release uses a develop → main PR merged with a merge commit, followed by the mandatory main → develop back-merge. Full contract: GOVERNANCE.md §3–4.3 and CLAUDE.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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +25 tokens per session 82416822d73a
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +94 tokens per session 91175632e832
- 1mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 1,250 tokens per session scan A 860a26e21704
cladding AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository qwerfunch/cladding (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,369 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 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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