agentic-coding AGENTS.md

A set of instructions for agents maintaining a reusable coding toolkit. The toolkit contains templates and scripts that install agent configuration into other repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides maintenance of Markdown templates, README files, lockfiles, and Bash installation scripts while keeping core and stack-specific copies consistent.
Why use it?
It explains which files belong together, how source folders map to installed folders, and when changes must also be made in package-specific overlays.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/sflandergan/agentic-coding/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sflandergan/agentic-coding

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 909 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 909 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00909 $0.00909
Opus 5 $0.00454 $0.00454
Sonnet 5 $0.00182 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00091 $0.00091

Measured yesterday against content hash 2e7652f58833, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-coding 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 yesterday.

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 · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Shared conventions for AI agents maintaining this toolkit repo. This file is loaded every session.

What This Repo Is

A reusable agentic coding toolkit. The core/ and stacks/ trees are templates installed into other repos by scripts/init.sh and scripts/copy.sh. There is no application code, no DDD contexts, and no test suite — only markdown templates and bash scripts.

Maintenance Surface

The files this repo's agents operate on:

  • Markdown templates under core/ and stacks/
  • README.md
  • skills-lock.json for this repo's self-maintenance skills
  • core/skills-lock.json for the toolkit installed into target repos
  • scripts/init.sh (~325 lines), scripts/copy.sh (~618 lines)

Dot-Mapping (Source → Target)

The scripts copy these source directories to target dot-directories:

Source in repo Target dot-directory
core/opencode/ .opencode/
core/claude/ .claude/
core/agents/ .agents/
core/docs/ docs/

Core + Stacks Dual-Maintenance

When modifying a file under core/, check whether stacks/pnpm/ or stacks/maven/ has an overlay for the same file. Update stack overlays when the change affects stack-specific installed output, especially when adding a new template or changing behavior that an overlay intentionally customizes.

Sync Invariants

These must stay consistent with the actual files:

  • README.md agent/skill lists
  • The dot-mapping table above
  • Agent file names in .opencode/agents/ vs what opencode.json references

Skill Lockfile Scopes

The two lockfiles have different scopes and are not expected to match.

  • skills-lock.json tracks remote skills installed in this repo for self-maintenance. Compare it against remote-sourced skill directories under .agents/skills/.
  • core/skills-lock.json tracks remote skills installed into target repos by scripts/init.sh and scripts/copy.sh. Compare it against the skills the toolkit templates install for downstream projects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 87 lines · 909 tokens per session scan A 2e7652f58833

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-coding AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sflandergan/agentic-coding (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), 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 2026-08-31.

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