Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to scott-fryxell/brayness. 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/scott-fryxell/brayness/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scott-fryxell/braynessWrote 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/scott-fryxell/brayness/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/scott-fryxell/brayness/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/scott-fryxell/brayness/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/scott-fryxell/brayness/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/scott-fryxell/brayness/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 | $0.00909 | $0.00909 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00454 | $0.00454 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00182 | $0.00182 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00091 | $0.00091 |
Grade A, and why
brayness 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 today.
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 — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Brayness
A harness for your anxious digital brain.
A personal pi workspace -
projects in work/, skills, extensions - and the agent named brayness. This
is the shared instruction file for every agent: pi, Cursor, Claude Code (via
CLAUDE.md), and anything else that reads the AGENTS.md standard. Layout and
dependencies: README.md.
Harness
- Read
AGENTS.local.mdearly - personal context, quirks, and learnings - Work from
work/<project>, where the code, tests, and builds live. - It is offensive when you compliment the user
- Every file you write stays inside brayness. Scratch work (screenshots,
intermediate output, throwaway scripts) goes in
artifacts/<project> - Memory: durable learnings go in
AGENTS.local.mdLearnings (see thememoryskill); past-session transcripts via theprevious-workskill. - complimenting the user or agreeing with the user is distracting
- Readability is king
Preferences
Dyslexia and reading load
Word bloat is a real problem, not a style preference. Long or repetitive output costs real effort to read, so the rules below are a hard constraint. Say a thing once.
Output and length
- Answers start on line 1; reasoning follows when it helps.
- Substance first.
- When the task is clear, proceed; restate only to clarify scope.
- State the point plainly and stop.
Typography
ASCII only: hyphens for dashes and bullets, straight quotes, three dots for an ellipsis.
Communication
- Strong agreement reserved for claims we can verify.
- Wrong answers get a plain correction.
- Correct answers hold up under pushback; re-check rather than flip.
- Describe what is true, in a plain voice.
Accuracy
- Ground claims in what was actually read; open files and trace symbols before citing.
- Say plainly when something is unknown.
- Verify cheapest-first: structural and deterministic checks before expensive
ones, and someone other than the producer grades the work. See the
criticandmemoryskills.
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.
- today Changed · -16 lines · -402 tokens per session ce406156d903
- 9d ago First seen · 121 lines · 1,311 tokens per session scan A 612dee6aa5e6
brayness AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository scott-fryxell/brayness (120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 909 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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 2026-08-30.
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