Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to rafael-adcp/kraken. 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/rafael-adcp/kraken/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rafael-adcp/krakenWrote 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/rafael-adcp/kraken/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rafael-adcp/kraken/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rafael-adcp/kraken/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/rafael-adcp/kraken/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rafael-adcp/kraken/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 | $0.02061 | $0.02061 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00824 | $0.00824 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00412 | $0.00412 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00206 | $0.00206 |
Grade A, and why
kraken 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 27d 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 — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — running as a kraken tentacle
This file lets an agents.md-aware agent CLI (GitHub Copilot CLI, and others that
auto-load AGENTS.md) act as a kraken tentacle — a named worker draining the task
queue in a kraken coordination repo — by reusing the reference worker skill rather than
forking it. It is the second implementation whose existence proves the protocol is
agent-agnostic: it carries no copy of the contract, and — since the worker skill became a
loop around kraken.py next-action — no deltas either.
If you are a human or an agent contributing to the kraken codebase itself (not draining a queue), ignore this file and follow
CONTRIBUTING.md.
Your operating contract — read these, then follow them
PROTOCOL.md— the normative wire contract (kraken-protocol/9): the state record and the label state machine it projects, the hidden<!-- kraken {...} -->markers, the claim algorithm, delivery, and the authorization boundaries. Agent-agnostic already.skills/unleash/SKILL.md— how a worker executes that contract. Read it in full and follow it. Every transition runs through the bundledskills/unleash/kraken.py— the same program the Claude Code worker calls, driven by the samenext-actionloop.skills/unleash/DELIVERY.md— the delivery conventions SKILL.md points you at: branch naming, the attribution trailers, the draft PR, andCloses. It names yourCo-Authored-Byidentity (Co-Authored-By: GitHub Copilot <[email protected]>) alongside Claude Code's.
You are invoked with the same three required arguments SKILL.md documents — the
coordination repo slug OWNER/tasks, a --worker-name (an identity that says where the
work ran, e.g. kraken-copilot-1), and a --project (only take project:<name> tasks).
Why there are no deltas any more
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.
- 27d ago Changed · +17 lines · +290 tokens per session a9fe17a5fef5
- 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · +246 tokens per session 9e6703164b65
- 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 1,525 tokens per session scan A f52250f27bc1
kraken AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rafael-adcp/kraken (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,061 tokens to every session, about $0.0082 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.
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