What is cli AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for coding agents working on Render’s command-line tool, which manages Render deployments and services from a terminal. They describe the project structure, coding boundaries, and questions that require approval.

Planning and reviewing changes to terminal screens, commands, tests, and related code in the Render command-line project.

They help agents follow existing patterns and avoid editing generated code, removing tests, or making risky interface and architecture changes without approval.

How render-oss/cli configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to render-oss/cli. 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/render-oss/cli/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/render-oss/cli

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Opus 5.5	$0.00783	$0.00783
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00391	$0.00391
Haiku 4.5	$0.00196	$0.00196

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Security

Grade A, and why

cli AGENTS.md scanned grade A 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -k https://api.localhost.render.com:8443/health

AGENTS.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Last verified: 2026-02-10

Essential guidance for AI coding agents working in the Render CLI.

Project Overview

What: Terminal interface for Render platform (Go + Bubble Tea TUI) Why: Manage deployments, services, logs, and infrastructure from the command line

Before You Code

Search existing code for similar implementations
Follow established patterns in pkg/tui/
Check if types exist in pkg/client/ before defining new ones

Boundaries

Never do (without explicit approval):

Edit files in pkg/client/ (generated code)
Modify *_gen.go files
Remove existing tests
Change navigation stack architecture in pkg/tui/stack.go

Always ask first:

Major TUI architectural changes
Adding new dependencies
Changes to command flag APIs (breaking changes)

Safe to do:

Add new views in pkg/tui/views/
Add new commands in cmd/
Write tests anywhere
Refactor within a single package

When Uncertain

Requirements unclear: Ask before implementing
Architecture questions: Propose minimal approach, get feedback
TUI interactions: Describe intended flow, get confirmation

Prefer small, incremental changes over large speculative implementations.

Essential Commands

# Building
go build -o render .              # Build binary

# Testing
go test ./cmd/... ./pkg/... ./internal/...     # Default development loop
go test <package> -run '<test-name-or-regex>'  # Focused test pattern

# Linting & Formatting
golangci-lint run                 # Lint
prek run --all-files              # All hooks (see prek.toml)

# Type Generation (from public-api-schema)
export RENDER_API_PATH=/path/to/api
cd ../public-api-schema && ./generate-cli.sh

Project Structure

cmd/ - Cobra command definitions
pkg/client/ - Generated API client (READ-ONLY)
pkg/tui/ - Bubble Tea TUI framework (see AGENTS.md)
pkg/config/ - User config file (~/.render/cli.yaml)
pkg/cfg/ - Environment defaults (different from config!)
pkg/command/ - Output formats, context utilities
pkg/dependencies/ - Dependency injection container
pkg/style/ - Lipgloss styling system

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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.

11d ago Changed · +4 lines · +55 tokens per session 29cc31baa1b4
2mo ago First seen · 218 lines · 1,902 tokens per session scan A 3adc970fb539

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cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository render-oss/cli (137 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,957 tokens to every session, about $0.0078 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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