Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to SDK-E/mailbox. 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/SDK-E/mailbox/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SDK-E/mailboxWrote 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/sdk-e/mailbox/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sdk-e/mailbox/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sdk-e/mailbox/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/sdk-e/mailbox/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sdk-e/mailbox/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 | $0.00555 | $0.00555 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00222 | $0.00222 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00111 | $0.00111 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00056 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
mailbox 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 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.
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 — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Guidance for AI agents working in this repo.
Stack
Single-package TypeScript ESM library + CLI bins. pnpm 11, Node >= 20 (CI runs 22). Vitest 4. No build framework — tsc to dist/.
Commands
pnpm verify— full gate: format:check, lint, typecheck, test:run, build. Must exit 0 with no warnings.pnpm dev— run the sink from source (tsx).- Individual:
pnpm run lint | format | typecheck | test:run | build.
Rules
- Run
pnpm verifybefore declaring any task done. - The HTTP API (
/api/health,/api/email,/api/email/:id,/api/email/all,/) and the message JSON shape are a stable wire protocol — consumers (app, auth, analytics repos) depend on exact shapes. Never break; extend only. - Zero runtime dependencies except
smtp-tester,@modelcontextprotocol/sdk,zod. Ask before adding anything else. - Keep files under ~200 lines. Exception:
src/ui.tsis one embedded HTML template string by design (ships inside the package without fs reads). - Bins must keep their shebang line as the first line;
tscpreserves it. - Tests bind ephemeral/free ports only — never hardcode 11025/11090 in tests.
- Conventional Commits (
feat:,fix:,chore:…). - No code comments unless required (e.g. eslint-disable rationale on its own line above).
Layout
src/server.ts—startMailbox()library entry: SMTP capture + HTTP API.src/ui.ts— embedded inbox UI.src/shared.ts— message types/formatting shared by server, CLI and MCP.src/client.ts— API client helpers used by CLI/MCP bins.src/env.ts— env resolution (MAIL_*), dotenv loading, production guard.src/bin/*— executable entries (mailbox,mailbox-cli,mailbox-mcp).test/raw-smtp.ts— dependency-free SMTP client used by tests.
Defaults worth remembering
- Ports: SMTP 11025, HTTP 11090 (env:
MAIL_SMTP_PORT,MAIL_HTTP_PORT; URL override:MAIL_HTTP_URL). - Loopback bind by default; refuses to start when
NODE_ENV=production. waitmatches only messages arriving after invocation.
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 · 41 lines · 555 tokens per session scan A 7966bd5525b7
mailbox AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SDK-E/mailbox (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 555 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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.
mailbox AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mailbox AGENTS.mdSDK-E/mailbox | Instructions file | 0 | 2mo ago | MIT | A | 555 | 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 |