Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to rdudov/task-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/rdudov/task-agent/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rdudov/task-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/rdudov/task-agent/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rdudov/task-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rdudov/task-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/rdudov/task-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rdudov/task-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 | $0.04682 | $0.04682 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01873 | $0.01873 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00936 | $0.00936 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00468 | $0.00468 |
Grade A, and why
task-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 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 — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Current review policy: Pre-author statement review accepts an explicitly configured
isolated_same_providerassurance through the existing prepared-assurance seam. Such a reviewer must have read-only access and no repository write grant. Product statement validation accepts that admitted strategy. Unconfigured Codex↔Claude pairing remains unchanged.
Task Agent Project Rules
This repository contains a generic assistant workspace built around autonomous agent workflows.
Core Rule
Any substantial change to the agent engine must update documentation for both agents and humans in the same change.
Before implementation or architecture review, use this order: do nothing; remove or disable unnecessary behavior; configure or reuse the existing path; simplify the existing implementation; only then write the smallest necessary code. New code carries the burden of proof. A reviewer treats avoidable code or a more complex mechanism as a defect even when tests pass.
A substantial change includes:
- task lifecycle or task artifact structure
- skill discovery or skill execution rules
- agent orchestration behavior
- restore, resume, or publication conventions
If a change modifies one of these areas, update the relevant project docs before finishing the task.
Documentation Boundaries
AGENTS.mddefines project-wide operating rules.docs/explains repository architecture and workflows.- Each skill documents its own behavior in its own
SKILL.md.
Do not duplicate skill-specific instructions in project-level docs.
Agent entry points must not duplicate rules either. AGENTS.md is canonical for
project rules, .cursor/rules/*.mdc for always-on rules, and skills/ for
skills. CLAUDE.md only imports them and .claude/ only holds symlinks into
them. Edit the canonical file, never a .claude/ path, and add a CLAUDE.md
import line when a new Cursor rule is added. See
docs/claude-code-setup.md.
Task Conventions
Every substantial user task gets its own directory under tasks/ before substantive work begins. The default is to create a task; skipping is only appropriate when the request is clearly trivial or the user explicitly opts out of task artifacts.
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 · +2 lines · +61 tokens per session 2d9384c077cb
- 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +152 tokens per session 7cbe12a07aaa
- 2mo ago First seen · 227 lines · 4,469 tokens per session scan A 1c8312e02138
task-agent AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rdudov/task-agent (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,682 tokens to every session, about $0.0187 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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