Tolaria is a desktop application for managing knowledge bases stored as plain Markdown files on macOS, Windows, and Linux. People use it for personal notes, company documentation, AI context, and assistant memory and procedures, with each vault kept as a Git repository for version history and offline use. The catalogue entries support workflows for operating and maintaining Tolaria knowledge bases.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to refactoringhq/tolaria. 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/refactoringhq/tolaria/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolariaWrote 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/refactoringhq/tolaria/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/refactoringhq/tolaria/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/refactoringhq/tolaria/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/refactoringhq/tolaria/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/refactoringhq/tolaria/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 | $0.09734 | $0.09734 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03894 | $0.03894 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01947 | $0.01947 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00973 | $0.00973 |
Grade A, and why
tolaria 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 2d 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.
The source is not reproduced here
Licensed AGPL-3.0
The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +2 lines · +207 tokens per session 30aa55bd076f
- 3d ago Changed · +2 lines · +181 tokens per session 5b3f893c7413
- 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · +135 tokens per session bb0daabfc3a5
- 9d ago Changed · +1 lines · +143 tokens per session 5263e6974f1f
- 10d ago Changed · +42 lines · +979 tokens per session 728312e4d129
- 14d ago Changed · +1 lines · +275 tokens per session f6d54d930faa
- 16d ago Changed · +19 lines · +606 tokens per session c0e2c77e2dad
- 17d ago Changed · +2 lines · +150 tokens per session 2de0b6fbab4e
- 18d ago Changed · +42 lines · +265 tokens per session 581e525b391f
- 22d ago First seen · 242 lines · 6,793 tokens per session scan A c056d93b41f0
tolaria AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository refactoringhq/tolaria (20,460 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 9,734 tokens to every session, about $0.0389 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.
tolaria AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tolaria AGENTS.mdrefactoringhq/tolaria | Instructions file | 20k | yesterday | AGPL-3.0 | A | 9,734 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |