specwright: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

specwright AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from ribeirogab/specwright. It costs 819 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for working on specwright, a markdown-and-shell toolkit for change-driven software work. They define its workflow, conventions, host commands, and verification points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Proposing and implementing features, reading the relevant change documents, following repository conventions, and reporting what was or was not verified.
Why use it?
They tell coding agents when to use change artifacts, when direct edits are acceptable, and when tests or other checks should run.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is ribeirogab/specwright's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on specwright itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything specwright configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ribeirogab/specwright. 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/ribeirogab/specwright/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ribeirogab/specwright

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Grade A, and why

specwright 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.

AGENTS.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

specwright — Agent Instructions

Instructions for AI coding assistants and developers working on the specwright codebase.

Never give up on the right solution.

This repo builds and ships specwright (a markdown + shell skill repo, no build pipeline) and dogfoods its own workflow.

specwright

This repository uses specwright for change-driven work. The vault is .specwright/: changes in changes/, deliveries in deliveries/. Project conventions are the repository's own — see ## Conventions below.

  • For feature work, suggest /sw:propose to the user instead of starting the workflow yourself. Do not implement a feature without offering it first.
  • While a change is in progress, read its proposal.md and tasks.md before touching the code it covers.
  • A trivial change needs no artifacts. Edit the code directly.
  • Verification — tests, lint, typecheck, build — runs at the implement or ship step, or when the user asks for it. After a direct edit outside the workflow, stop and report what changed and what was left unverified; do not run gates on your own initiative.

Host surfaces: /sw:* in Claude Code, $sw:* in Codex. Host permissions and sandbox policy remain authoritative; nothing here grants permission to write files, run commands, create branches, commit, push, or reach a network service.

The ladder

Four steps, each its own command, each stopping and naming the next:

propose → plan → implement → review

ship runs all four without stopping and records its decisions in proposal.md. delivery decomposes a large outcome and conducts one owner per change. archive runs after you merge — the one step no ladder command can reach, because merging is never the agent's call.

A change carries proposal.md (why, AC-N, decisions) and tasks.md (the checklist and the execution state), plus design.md (architecture) whenever tasks.md declares a scope: above low. Those files are written to be executed by an agent with no memory of the conversation that produced them — that constraint is what makes model-switching and cross-session handoff work, and it is enforced by plugins/sw/scripts/validate-change.sh.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 819 tokens per session scan A 5f567e490a87

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specwright AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ribeirogab/specwright (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 819 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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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