Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to SamErde/TheCleaners. 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/SamErde/TheCleaners/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SamErde/TheCleanersWrote 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/samerde/thecleaners/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/samerde/thecleaners/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/samerde/thecleaners/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/samerde/thecleaners/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/samerde/thecleaners/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 | $0.00872 | $0.00872 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00349 | $0.00349 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00174 | $0.00174 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00087 | $0.00087 |
Grade A, and why
TheCleaners 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 24d 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 — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
TheCleaners contributor and agent contract
Read docs/release-plan-1.0.md before changing behavior. It is the implementation ledger, not a claim that every feature is finished. Follow .github/copilot-instructions.md for PowerShell style: approved verbs, PascalCase, OTBS, help, explicit error handling, and tests.
Safety invariants
- Windows PowerShell 5.1 is the minimum. Support Microsoft-supported PowerShell 7 releases on Windows; do not introduce newer syntax into runtime code.
- Never run a cleaner against real user, Windows, IIS, or Exchange data during development. Use isolated fixture paths or mocks. Server acceptance requires a disposable lab and recorded evidence.
- IIS and Exchange are structurally preview-only until their product-specific gates pass. Require explicit
-WhatIfbefore discovery. No deletion command, native deletion call, generic deletion helper, force flag, preference override, or persistent activation is permitted in either preview implementation. - The tentative later-minor Exchange
-AllowRemovaldesign is per invocation, not an activation setting. Do not add it in the 1.0 work or describe it as a finalized permanent contract. - Public cleanup commands own mutations. The legacy
Remove-OldFileswrapper and its tests are retired; never reintroduce a generic mutation layer or add new callers to that retired contract. - Temp directory removal requires
-RemoveEmptyDirectory. Only prune directories emptied by that invocation and their now-empty ancestors. Preserve roots, unrelated empty branches, recent files, and reparse points. - Temp candidate deletion must be file-specific and bound to an opened file object. Do not reintroduce provider
Remove-Itemfor candidate files; a missing candidate must be skipped, and a directory substitution must never be deleted or counted as a successful file removal. - Every mutation must be covered by the owning command's
ShouldProcessdecision. Never weaken WhatIf/Confirm tests to make a refactor pass. - Discovery failure is not an empty successful result. Report failures through PowerShell's error stream and honor
-ErrorAction Stop. - Module import must be quiet, deterministic, and free of caller-scope initialization.
- Do not mark commands stable, merge a release, create a release tag, or publish to the Gallery without the applicable gates and maintainer approval.
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.
- 24d ago First seen · 34 lines · 872 tokens per session scan A 223fd73d6a9f
TheCleaners AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SamErde/TheCleaners (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 872 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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 2026-10-02.
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