ai-agents session-logs.instructions.md

ai-agents session-logs.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from rjmurillo/ai-agents. It costs 1,069 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository rules for handling existing session logs, which record past coding-agent work and remain available as project history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working under the repository's agent-management folders or reading logs for retrospectives and memory extraction.
Why use it?
They prevent obsolete log files from being created and explain which log-related changes are still allowed.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/rjmurillo/ai-agents/session-logs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjmurillo/ai-agents

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01069 $0.01069
Opus 5 $0.00535 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00214 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00107 $0.00107

Measured yesterday against content hash d96d4f5cc14a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-agents session-logs.instructions.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.

.github/instructions/session-logs.instructions.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Log Mechanics

.agents/schemas/session-log.schema.json describes what a session log contains. Session log creation is discontinued: do not create a new .agents/sessions/*.json file. Nothing ever required one to commit, push, or open a PR. The existing logs under .agents/sessions/ stay in the repository as history and remain readable by the retrospective skill, memory extraction, and the PreCompact hook. This rule covers the mechanics that still apply to a log that already exists on your branch (carried over from before this change, or cherry-picked from an older one).

Scoped to .agents/** rather than ** on purpose. The mechanics matter only when a change touches that tree, and the always-on instruction ceiling (scripts/validation/instruction_budget.py) has under 500 bytes of headroom, so a universally scoped copy would block the next contributor's rule. Note that the generator currently ships this rule to the plugin with applyTo: '**', because .agents/** is filtered as internal-only and the empty scope is backfilled as universal; that is issue #4317, not a property of this rule.

MUST

  1. Do not create a new session log. Session log creation is discontinued; no start, end, commit, push, or PR gate ever required one, and none does now. If a log named .agents/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-session-NN<slug>.json ends up staged anyway (for example, cherry-picked from an older branch), the session-policy pre-commit hook still validates it (scripts/validation/git_hook_policy.py session, a validate-if-present gate): a malformed log still blocks that commit. When no log is staged, the gate returns 0 (check_sessions passes when there are no session paths, and also when _merge_in_progress).

  2. Record endingCommit in a follow-up commit, never by amending. Amending replaces the commit whose SHA the log names, so validate_session_json.py then reports the recorded SHA as unreachable (issue #3618). Commit the work with endingCommit empty, then commit the SHA in a second commit. The reachability check returns no finding in a shallow clone (session_scope.py short-circuits when --is-shallow-repository is true), so a green CI run on a shallow checkout is not evidence the SHA is reachable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. yesterday First seen · 77 lines · 1,069 tokens per session scan A d96d4f5cc14a

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ai-agents session-logs.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rjmurillo/ai-agents (45 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,069 tokens to every session, about $0.0053 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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