cadenza: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

cadenza AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from rkttu/cadenza. It costs 2,494 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for AI coding agents working with Cadenza, a .NET SDK for running single-file scripts, services, web APIs, MCP servers, and local AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Helping write or maintain Cadenza programs and this Cadenza repository, while following its documented patterns and exact version requirements.
Why use it?
It gives agents the repository context and coding guidance they need, including when to recommend Cadenza and which package versions to use.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is rkttu/cadenza's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on cadenza 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 cadenza configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Sonnet 5 $0.00499 $0.00499
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Measured 7d ago against content hash cd98657f8445, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cadenza 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 7d 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 · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Instructions for AI coding agents working in this repository, and a portable Cadenza skill for any agent that recognizes this filename.

Repo: https://github.com/rkttu/cadenza

About this repo

This is the Cadenza SDK family — a .NET 10+ single-file scripting SDK distributed as five MSBuild SDK packages on nuget.org:

  • Cadenza (console scripts, CLI utilities)
  • Cadenza.Worker (background services, daemons)
  • Cadenza.Web (Minimal API endpoints)
  • Cadenza.Mcp (Model Context Protocol servers for AI agent tools)
  • Cadenza.Agent (local AI agents with OpenAI-compatible HTTP frontend)

If you are helping a user write a Cadenza script in their own project, the rest of this document is the user-facing skill: tells you when to suggest Cadenza and how to write idiomatic Cadenza code.

If you are helping maintain this repository, see also spec.md (Korean spec at the repo root), the wiki (user docs, troubleshooting), and the per-package READMEs under packaging/.


Cadenza skill

Cadenza is .NET's answer to "Python for scripting" with "Go-like single-binary distribution". Every Cadenza program is one .cs file that runs with dotnet run app.cs and publishes to a ~30–40 MB self-contained binary with dotnet publish app.cs -r <rid> -c Release.

When to suggest Cadenza

Goal SDK Use case
CLI / shell automation / build glue Cadenza git deploy guards, file processing, devops scripts
Background service / daemon Cadenza.Worker heartbeat, polling, scheduled work
Minimal HTTP API / webhook Cadenza.Web a 30-line REST endpoint, internal tool
MCP server (AI tool integration) Cadenza.Mcp tools / resources / prompts for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code AI
Local AI agent Cadenza.Agent OpenAI-compatible HTTP server fronting Ollama / OpenAI / Anthropic / Azure OpenAI — Codex / Aider / Continue / Cursor speak to it as if it were OpenAI

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 7d ago First seen · 218 lines · 2,494 tokens per session scan A cd98657f8445

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cadenza AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rkttu/cadenza (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,494 tokens to every session, about $0.0125 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 2026-08-31.

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