What is Paddock AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for deploying and operating Paddock, an open-source dashboard for managing AI-agent teams and their tasks.

Use it when preparing, running, or checking Paddock and its separate OpenClaw gateway service.

It records which worktrees, services, startup scripts, and release paths the deployment depends on.

How racecraft-lab/Paddock configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to racecraft-lab/Paddock. 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/racecraft-lab/Paddock/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/racecraft-lab/Paddock

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 7,040 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 7,040 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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	$0.07040	$0.07040
Opus 5.5	$0.02816	$0.02816
Sonnet 5.5	$0.01408	$0.01408
Haiku 4.5	$0.00704	$0.00704

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fb49906c3539, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Paddock AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- TypeScript 5.7 strict on Node >=22 + Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, `better-sqlite3`, existing feature-flag/auth/workspace/task-stage helpers, Node `child_process`/stream/timer/crypto/fs APIs, Vitest, Playwright; no

AGENTS.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paddock

Open-source dashboard for AI agent orchestration. Manage agent fleets, track tasks, monitor costs, and orchestrate workflows.

Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript 5, SQLite (better-sqlite3), Tailwind CSS 3, Zustand, pnpm

OpenClaw Node Deployment Notes

These notes apply to operator-managed Paddock worktrees: <live-worktree> (live main) and <dev-worktree> (dev branch).
Paddock should run from racecraft-lab/Paddock main.
Active systemd unit: paddock.service
Active startup wrapper: ~/.local/bin/mc-start.sh
The wrapper resolves runtime secrets from the operator's configured secret manager at startup.
Active service worktree: <live-worktree> on main; <dev-worktree> is the development worktree on the active feature branch.
OpenClaw is a separate deploy surface on the operator node. The gateway should run from <openclaw-release-symlink>, which should point at the clean tagged release tree, not from a Homebrew global package path.
If you change startup assumptions, verify both:
- systemctl --user status --no-pager paddock.service
- systemctl --user status --no-pager openclaw-gateway.service

Prerequisites

Node.js >= 22 (LTS recommended; 24.x also supported)
pnpm (corepack enable to auto-install)

Setup

pnpm install
pnpm build

Secrets (AUTH_SECRET, API_KEY) auto-generate on first run if not set. Visit http://localhost:3000/setup to create an admin account, or set AUTH_USER/AUTH_PASS in .env for headless/CI seeding.

Run

pnpm dev              # development (localhost:3000)
pnpm start            # production
pnpm start:standalone # standalone mode (after build)

Docker

docker compose up                 # zero-config
bash install.sh --docker          # full guided setup

Production hardening: docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.hardened.yml up -d

Tests

pnpm test             # unit tests (vitest)
pnpm test:e2e         # end-to-end (playwright)
pnpm typecheck        # tsc --noEmit
pnpm lint             # eslint
pnpm test:all         # lint + typecheck + test + build + e2e

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 232 lines · 7,040 tokens per session scan A fb49906c3539

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Paddock AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository racecraft-lab/Paddock (12 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,040 tokens to every session, about $0.0282 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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Paddock AGENTS.mdracecraft-lab/Paddock	Instructions file	12	4mo ago	MIT	A	7,040	Codex, OpenCode
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