Row-Bot is a local-first desktop AI assistant that combines language models with memory and tools for working across files, repositories, workflows, and communication channels. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can run locally while keeping application data on their machine.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to siddsachar/row-bot. 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/siddsachar/row-bot/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/siddsachar/row-botWrote 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/siddsachar/row-bot/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/siddsachar/row-bot/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/siddsachar/row-bot/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/siddsachar/row-bot/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/siddsachar/row-bot/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 | $0.04018 | $0.04018 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01607 | $0.01607 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00804 | $0.00804 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00402 | $0.00402 |
Grade A, and why
row-bot 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 8d 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 — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Canonical instructions for AI coding agents working in Row-Bot. Keep this file
concise, concrete, and aligned with scripts/run_test_matrix.py.
Project Identity
Row-Bot is a local-first desktop AI assistant with provider-aware agent runtimes, tools, workflows, durable memory/knowledge graph data, MCP, plugins, skills, channels, voice, Developer Studio, Designer Studio, and platform installers.
Priorities, in order:
- Protect local user data, secrets, and local-first defaults.
- Avoid surprise network calls, provider calls, or real channel messages.
- Preserve approval gates and graceful recovery for destructive actions.
- Add deterministic tests for changed behavior.
- Keep Windows and macOS first-class; keep Linux browser/server mode healthy.
Ground Rules
- Do not add Row-Bot first-party analytics or hidden phone-home behavior.
The only first-party telemetry is the install count (N6): its fixed payload,
on by default, documented on the privacy page and in the release notes, and
off in one click in Settings › System › Privacy or with
ROW_BOT_INSTALL_COUNT=0. Anything more needs the owner's review. A third-party dependency with telemetry may be used only when its behavior is reviewed, documented, disclosed before installation or first execution, and accepted by the user. Never describe third-party telemetry as Row-Bot telemetry, and never allow dependency telemetry to include Row-Bot prompts, files, memories, secrets, screenshots, tool arguments, or channel content. Two reviewed, opt-in exceptions are currently approved: the Cua Driver integration, and the Learning (preview) training engine, installed only after the download ask, with every library's usage reporting switched off and a network guard (docs/LEARNING_ENGINE_TELEMETRY.md). Future dependencies require a separate review. - Do not commit secrets, API keys, provider tokens, private local paths, or real user data in code, tests, docs, fixtures, snapshots, or logs.
- Do not make default tests depend on live providers, live MCP servers, real
messaging channels, real network availability, or a specific local Ollama
model. Mark those tests
live_providerore2e. - Do not add test files to the
tests/root; put them in the lane and area they cover (see Where To Put Tests). - Do not edit
requirements.txtby hand. It is generated fromuv.lock. - Do not add runtime implementation code to root wrappers such as
app.pyorlauncher.py; application code belongs undersrc/row_bot/. - Do not recursively delete ignored/generated directories such as
.tmp/,.testtmp/,dist/, orinstaller/build/unless explicitly asked. - Keep changes scoped. Avoid unrelated refactors, reformatting, and metadata churn.
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.
- 8d ago Changed · +7 lines · +131 tokens per session 230965b8b66b
- 11d ago Changed · +17 lines · +319 tokens per session 39b85aafb08a
- 14d ago Changed · +4 lines · +64 tokens per session 721824dfee47
- 16d ago Changed · +13 tokens per session 7c7ee17b2a0f
- 23d ago Changed · +8 lines · +169 tokens per session 040c32792ef7
- 27d ago Changed · +2 lines · +31 tokens per session e112a8c079d2
- 1mo ago Changed · +16 lines · +695 tokens per session 97d3b5d1d0f5
- 2mo ago First seen · 251 lines · 2,596 tokens per session scan A 7e2752254def
row-bot AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository siddsachar/row-bot (1,683 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 4,018 tokens to every session, about $0.0161 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.
row-bot AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| row-bot AGENTS.mdsiddsachar/row-bot | Instructions file | 1.7k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 4,018 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |