Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ryaniosys/template-agent. 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/ryaniosys/template-agent/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryaniosys/template-agentWrote 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/ryaniosys/template-agent/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ryaniosys/template-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ryaniosys/template-agent/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/ryaniosys/template-agent/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ryaniosys/template-agent/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 | $0.01814 | $0.01814 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00726 | $0.00726 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00363 | $0.00363 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00181 | $0.00181 |
Grade D, and why
template-agent AGENTS.md scanned grade D with 2 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 2mo 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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- Skills should read this section to get configured paths --> Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping
mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.
Configured in `.mcp.json`. Secrets in `.env.mcp` (gitignored). The source is not reproduced here
No licence file
A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 1,814 tokens per session scan D d821bf1d0e16
template-agent AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ryaniosys/template-agent (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,814 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (hidden instructions, reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
template-agent AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| template-agent AGENTS.mdryaniosys/template-agent | Instructions file | 2 | 6d ago | none | D | 1,814 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |