degit is a tool that creates project copies from Git repositories without downloading their full history. Developers use it to start projects from templates or selected repository files. Its catalogue add-on helps coding agents choose a repository source, revision, and destination.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Rich-Harris/degit. 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/Rich-Harris/degit/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degitWrote 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/rich-harris/degit/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rich-harris/degit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rich-harris/degit/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/rich-harris/degit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rich-harris/degit/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 | $0.01414 | $0.01414 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00566 | $0.00566 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00283 | $0.00283 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00141 | $0.00141 |
Grade A, and why
degit 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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Instructions and entry points for coding agents working on this repository. For the open format background, see agents.md.
Documentation sync
Treat AGENTS.md as the agent-facing index for README.md, docs/CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/SECURITY.md, assets/help.md, and skills/degit/SKILL.md. Keep it aligned with those docs when workflow, release, or navigation facts change.
Agent index
| Topic | Where to look |
|---|---|
| Keeping human docs and this file aligned | Documentation sync |
| User-facing behavior, CLI usage, examples | README.md, docs/USAGE.md |
| License text | LICENSE.md |
| Contributing flow, PR checks, commit style | docs/CONTRIBUTING.md |
| Security policy and reporting | docs/SECURITY.md |
| Community expectations | docs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md |
| Published CLI help text | assets/help.md |
| End-user degit agent skill | skills/degit/SKILL.md |
| CI and security workflows | .github/workflows/quality.yml, .github/workflows/verification.yml, .github/workflows/security.yml, .github/workflows/integration.yml, .github/workflows/performance.yml, .github/workflows/anti-slop.yml, .github/workflows/publish.yml |
| Library and CLI implementation | src/index.ts, src/core/orchestrator.ts, src/shared/utils.ts, src/bin.ts |
| tsdown build | tsdown.config.ts |
| Tests and Vitest settings | test/, vitest.config.ts |
| npm scripts and package metadata | package.json |
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.
- yesterday Changed · +79 tokens per session ad40953a0ee7
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 1,335 tokens per session scan A 82e1f07f39cb
degit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Rich-Harris/degit (7,950 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,414 tokens to every session, about $0.0057 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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