What is spool AGENTS.md?

A project instruction file for Spool, a local task backend used to support development by coding agents. It defines the product direction, terminology, architecture priorities, and limits for the first version.

Use it when contributing to Spool or reviewing changes to its service, API, task queues, agent runs, local worktrees, command-line tools, or Pi launcher.

It gives agents a shared set of rules before they change the code. This reduces misunderstandings about the product and prevents work on excluded features such as a web dashboard or external tracker sync.

How seemethere/spool configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to seemethere/spool. 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/seemethere/spool/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seemethere/spool

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,702 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,702 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	$0.01702	$0.01702
Opus 5.5	$0.00681	$0.00681
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00340	$0.00340
Haiku 4.5	$0.00170	$0.00170

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 336c4b4abdc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spool 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.

AGENTS.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spool Agent Instructions

Always read first

CONTEXT.md — canonical domain language and relationships.
ROADMAP.md — current implementation sequence, with Dogfooding Readiness first.
Relevant docs/adr/*.md files before changing architecture, workflow, persistence, delivery, or launcher behavior.

Use the terms from CONTEXT.md exactly. Avoid Linear/GitHub/PR-shaped language unless discussing future optional integrations.

Product direction

Spool is a local-first task backend for speeding up agent-driven development. The first priority is Dogfooding Readiness: Spool should become useful enough to build Spool with Spool as quickly as possible.

Keep v1 focused on:

Spool Service + Spool API
Task Queues
Tasks, Task States, requirements, Workpad Notes
Agent Runs and Claim Leases
Local Worktree Delivery
Pi Launcher using pi --mode rpc
Minimal Spool Pi Extension
CLI-first observability

Do not expand v1 into:

A Linear clone or generic project management system
A GitHub/PR-dependent workflow
A web UI/dashboard
Multi-tenant permissions/ACLs
Import/sync from external trackers
Custom workflows beyond the fixed v1 Task State lifecycle

Implementation stack

Core Spool implementation:

Rust
axum for HTTP
sqlx + SQLite for persistence/migrations
clap for CLI
tokio for async process/server work
serde for API types
tracing for logs
uuid for internal IDs
time for timestamps

Pi integration:

TypeScript Spool Pi Extension
Communicate with Spool through the HTTP API
Do not share in-process code between Rust Spool and the extension

Dogfooding Readiness path

Prioritize these milestones in order:

Rust skeleton, config/init/migrations, health/version.
Queues, Tasks, requirements, Workpad Notes, Audit Events, bootstrap creation, show/status CLI.
Claim/lease/run lifecycle and fake launcher worker loop.
Local Worktree Delivery setup, Pi Launcher RPC, minimal Spool Pi Extension.
Run transcripts/session data, status/run show, manual dogfood merge or first Integrating implementation, deterministic tests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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.

2mo ago First seen · 163 lines · 1,702 tokens per session scan A 336c4b4abdc2

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spool AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository seemethere/spool (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,702 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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.

Project management Rust ai-agents developer-tools local-first sqlite

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spool AGENTS.mdseemethere/spool	Instructions file	5	1mo ago	MIT	A	1,702	Codex, OpenCode
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