Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to re-cinq/wave. 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/re-cinq/wave/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/re-cinq/waveWrote 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/re-cinq/wave/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/re-cinq/wave/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/re-cinq/wave/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/re-cinq/wave/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/re-cinq/wave/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 | $0.04725 | $0.04725 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01890 | $0.01890 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00945 | $0.00945 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00473 | $0.00473 |
Grade B, and why
wave AGENTS.md scanned grade B 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 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
6. Check for leaked files: `gh pr diff <N> --name-only | grep -E "^\.claude/|^\.agents/artifacts/|^\.agents/output/"` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Wave Development Guidelines
Wave is a multi-agent pipeline orchestrator written in Go that wraps Claude Code and other LLM CLIs via subprocess execution. It composes personas, pipelines, contracts, and relay/compaction into a continuous development system.
ACCOUNTABILITY — YOU FOUND IT, YOU FIX IT
URGENT — NON-NEGOTIABLE: This is the single most important rule in this file. It survives context compaction. Re-read it if you are unsure.
If you discover a problem — any problem — you own it. Fix it immediately.
There is NO concept of "pre-existing issue" in this project. If you touched it or saw it break — fix it.
If a validation step reveals issues in files you didn't modify — fix those too.
Never argue about whether something is your responsibility.
Critical Constraints
- Single static binary — no runtime dependencies except adapter binaries
- Test ownership — every failing test is YOUR concern. Fix or delete (with justification), never ignore. Changes to personas, pipelines, contracts, or meta-pipelines require
go test ./... - Security first — all inputs validated, paths sanitized, permissions enforced
- Constitutional compliance — navigator-first architecture, fresh memory at step boundaries, contract validation at handovers, ephemeral workspace isolation, observable progress events
- Observable execution — structured progress events for monitoring
- No backward compatibility constraint during prototype phase — move fast, let tests catch regressions
- No
t.Skip()without a linked issue. Delete tests only with clear justification
How Wave Works at Runtime
Each pipeline is a topologically-sorted DAG of steps. For every step:
- Workspace creation — an ephemeral worktree is created under
.agents/workspaces/<pipeline>/<step>/. Steps can share workspaces viaworkspace.ref. Mounts support readonly/readwrite modes - Artifact injection — outputs from prior steps are injected into
.agents/artifacts/before execution begins. The system validates existence, enforces optional/required semantics, and checks schemas ifref.SchemaPathis specified - Runtime CLAUDE.md assembly — a per-step CLAUDE.md is generated from four layers:
- Base protocol preamble (
.agents/personas/base-protocol.md) - Persona system prompt (role, responsibilities, constraints)
- Contract compliance section (auto-generated from step contract schema)
- Restriction section (denied/allowed tools, network domains from manifest permissions)
- Base protocol preamble (
- Adapter execution — the persona runs in isolated context with fresh memory (no chat history inheritance)
- Contract validation — step output is validated against its contract (json_schema, typescript_interface, test_suite, markdown_spec, format) before marking the step successful. Hard failures block; soft failures log warnings
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 First seen · 303 lines · 4,725 tokens per session scan B 796e02e2d5f9
wave AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository re-cinq/wave (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,725 tokens to every session, about $0.0189 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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