What is brayness AGENTS.md?

Project-specific instructions for working in the brayness code repository. They cover the project, its harness, and preferences for readable output and manageable reading load.

Use them when making changes in the brayness repository, especially when deciding how to structure work and communicate results.

They provide repository-specific guidance so coding work follows the project's expectations.

How scott-fryxell/brayness configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

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.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scott-fryxell/brayness/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scott-fryxell/brayness

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,007 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,007 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.01007	$0.01007
Opus 5.5	$0.00403	$0.00403
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00201	$0.00201
Haiku 4.5	$0.00101	$0.00101

Measured 29d ago against content hash f021f9874b61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 29d 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 · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 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.

Avoid encouragement, the response to be in ASD-STE100 (Simple Technical English).

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.md early - personal context, quirks, and learnings
This file outranks your harness defaults. No proprietary syntax, paths, or conventions - pi, Cursor, and Claude Code all read it.
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.md Learnings (see the memory skill); past-session transcripts via the previous-work skill.
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 critic and memory skills.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

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.

29d ago Changed · +8 lines · +98 tokens per session f021f9874b61
1mo ago Changed · -16 lines · -402 tokens per session ce406156d903
1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 1,311 tokens per session scan A 612dee6aa5e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brayness AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository scott-fryxell/brayness (125 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,007 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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 2026-08-30.

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).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

brayness: Instructions file for Codex