Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to saagpatel/MCPAudit. 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/saagpatel/MCPAudit/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saagpatel/MCPAuditWrote 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/saagpatel/mcpaudit/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/saagpatel/mcpaudit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/saagpatel/mcpaudit/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/saagpatel/mcpaudit/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/saagpatel/mcpaudit/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 | $0.00429 | $0.00429 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00172 | $0.00172 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00086 | $0.00086 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00043 | $0.00043 |
Grade A, and why
MCPAudit 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 14d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Purpose
MCPAudit reviews MCP client and server configuration, reports declared access and observed metadata, and highlights drift. Static, read-only review is the default.
Layout
src/mcp_audit/contains the CLI, discovery, analysis, and report code.tests/contains unit, integration, and fixture-backed regression tests.docs/contains user guides, contracts, and maintainer procedures.examples/contains synthetic configurations and safe walkthroughs.
Setup
Use Python 3.14.8 and uv.
uv sync --locked --dev
uv run mcp-audit --help
uv run mcp-audit check --config examples/sandbox/fixtures/synthetic-mcp-config.json \
--config-only --skip-connect --override-config /dev/null
The explicit fixture, --config-only, and empty override keep this smoke test
on synthetic input without discovering workstation configs or connecting.
Checks
Run make check for lint, formatting, type checking, and the default test suite. Use focused pytest commands for targeted changes. Use the synthetic sandbox fixture for CLI smoke checks; connected tests and platform-specific lanes have additional prerequisites documented in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Boundaries
- Prefer explicit synthetic configs with
--config-only --skip-connectfor checks that do not need workstation discovery. - Do not read
.envfiles, keychains, OAuth stores, browser profiles, raw logs, private transcripts, cookies, or credential-bearing configs. - Reports may contain configuration shape, tool names, and evidence text. Report environment variable key names only, never values, and review output before sharing it.
- Remote package verification, downloads, LLM analysis, and connected scans are opt-in higher-reach operations.
- Preserve report schema compatibility and surface incomplete or skipped checks clearly.
Delivery
Use small Conventional Commits. Before proposing a release, follow maintainers/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md; do not claim hosted CI, publication, or runtime behavior from local checks alone.
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.
- 14d ago Changed · -67 lines · -776 tokens per session 172ced2dcc39
- 21d ago Changed · +1 tokens per session 9d2324ecce46
- 23d ago Changed · +8 lines · +402 tokens per session 688823961af8
- 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 802 tokens per session scan A d0d7a7994720
MCPAudit AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository saagpatel/MCPAudit (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 429 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
vscode model-prompts.instructions.md
Model-specific prompt authoring and registry guidelines.