What is Pulse AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for coding agents working on the Pulse repository. They explain Pulse's purpose, goals, and guiding ideas.

Understanding Pulse's vision, mission, and philosophy while working in its codebase.

They give an agent the project context needed to make changes that fit its stated direction.

How Regncreative/Pulse configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Regncreative/Pulse. 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/Regncreative/Pulse/master/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 1,051 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,051 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. 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	$0.01051	$0.01051
Opus 5.5	$0.00420	$0.00420
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00210	$0.00210
Haiku 4.5	$0.00105	$0.00105

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 787a75fb1f6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Pulse 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 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.

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.

AGENTS.md · 500 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 500 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Pulse

See what Windows is really doing.

Vision

Pulse is a professional Windows diagnostics platform.

Its purpose is to make Windows internals understandable.

Pulse observes.

Pulse explains.

Pulse visualizes.

Pulse never changes Windows.

Mission

Create the best modern Windows observability platform.

Pulse should become the modern replacement for multiple Windows diagnostic tools.

Including but not limited to:

Event Viewer
Process Monitor
Resource Monitor
Performance Monitor
ETW viewers

Pulse combines these into one consistent experience.

Philosophy

Windows already knows everything.

Pulse simply reveals it.

Everything must remain read-only.

Never modify operating system behavior.

Never inject into processes.

Never patch Windows.

Never hook Windows.

Never bypass Windows security.

Observation only.

Core Principles

Read-only
Local-first
Offline capable
No telemetry
No analytics
No tracking
No advertisements
Privacy first
Native Windows experience
Fast startup
Low memory usage
Low CPU usage
Stable
Professional

Product Goals

Users should understand what Windows is doing.

Not by reading logs.

But by reading events.

Example:

Bad

Application Error Event ID 1000

Good

Explorer unexpectedly closed.

Windows restarted Explorer.

Product Scope

Pulse can display

Event Logs
ETW
Process lifecycle
Thread lifecycle
Service activity
Driver activity
Registry activity
File activity
Network activity
Windows Error Reporting
Crash information
Performance counters
Boot information
Shutdown information

Future

Plugin system
Timeline replay
Session recording
Diagnostics export
Crash timeline

What Pulse is NOT

Pulse is NOT

Antivirus
Cleaner
Optimizer
Registry cleaner
Booster
RAM optimizer
Driver updater
Malware remover

Never add these features.

UI Philosophy

Modern Windows.

Inspired by

Windows 11
Visual Studio
Sysinternals
DevTools
Figma

Read the full file on GitHub · 500 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 · 500 lines · 1,051 tokens per session scan A 787a75fb1f6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Pulse AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Regncreative/Pulse (691 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,051 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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.

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