sema-evals: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

sema-evals AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from RobinOppenstam/sema-evals. It costs 286 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for sema-evals, a project that tests ways for AI models to coordinate using shared meaning. They define research and engineering rules for running those tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Following experiment rules, choosing a main measurement, preserving run records, checking outputs deterministically, and enforcing TypeScript, Node.js, and pnpm conventions.
Why use it?
They help prevent misleading results, such as treating fixed test-harness output as proof of better model performance. They also require recording failed runs and separating different kinds of token use.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

This is RobinOppenstam/sema-evals's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on sema-evals 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 sema-evals configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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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 5.1 $0.00286 $0.00286
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00029

Measured 7d ago against content hash fa46a2ee0d53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sema-evals 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 · 32 lines

What it actually says

Repository instructions

This repository evaluates semantic coordination mechanisms. Treat research validity as a product requirement.

Non-negotiable experiment rules

  • Never describe deterministic harness output as evidence that Sema improves model performance.
  • Keep pattern content identical between equal-information prose and Sema conditions. Isolate content, addressing, and enforcement effects.
  • Choose and document one primary endpoint before a confirmatory run.
  • Preserve every run, including failures, timeouts, and malformed outputs.
  • Record prompt, dataset, model, implementation, Sema version, vocabulary root, scorer, and protocol fingerprints in result manifests.
  • Report wire bytes, hydration/context tokens, and total model tokens separately. A short reference is not automatically a context-token saving.
  • Prefer deterministic validators. Blind subjective judges to the experiment condition and never use an LLM judge as the only scorer.
  • Do not use live trading capital in an experiment. Historical replay and paper execution come first.

Engineering rules

  • Use pnpm and Node.js 22 or newer.
  • Keep TypeScript strict and avoid any.
  • Put reusable code in packages/; experiment-specific policy belongs under experiments/.
  • Generated result bundles belong under results/ and remain untracked unless intentionally promoted into a dated public report.
  • Run pnpm check before handing off changes.
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 · 32 lines · 286 tokens per session scan A fa46a2ee0d53

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sema-evals AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RobinOppenstam/sema-evals (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 286 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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