silo AGENTS.md

Project instructions for coding agents working on Silo, an open-source desktop app that lets developers keep multiple coding workspaces open and switch between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing Silo, planning substantial work, recording architecture decisions, updating project documents, or maintaining its glossary of domain terms.
Why use it?
They help an agent understand the project’s architecture, engineering rules, documentation practices, and plans for larger changes. They also reduce the risk of code and documentation falling out of sync.

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/silo-code/silo/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silo-code/silo

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 4,204 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,204 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 $0.04204 $0.04204
Opus 5 $0.02102 $0.02102
Sonnet 5 $0.00841 $0.00841
Haiku 4.5 $0.00420 $0.00420

Measured yesterday against content hash 1f57f44d2b18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

silo 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 · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Silo — project guide for coding agents

Silo keeps all your projects alive at once — for developers juggling coding agents (Tauri + React + TypeScript). Open many workspaces and switch instantly; each keeps its terminals, agents, panels, and layout intact in the background. 100% open source, free forever. Extensible: modeled on VS Code / Obsidian with a small stable core, a public extension SDK, and first-party features built as extensions — so the bar for boundaries, documentation, and a clean public surface is high.

Product positioning for humans lives in README.md / apps/docs/index.md / context7.json. Prefer those over inventing a tagline. This file is agent orientation (architecture, boundaries, commands), not marketing copy.

Orientation docs (read when relevant):

  • docs/decisions/ — ADRs: the architecture decisions of record (the durable "why").
  • docs/proposals/ — RFCs: forward-looking designs not yet decided.
  • docs/change-planning-convention.md — how a substantial change is planned: proposal → (temporary) planning package → implementation → verification → collapse back to one durable proposal. See "Planning a substantial change" below.
  • docs/domain-language.md — the domain glossary: ubiquitous language for the product, including UI component naming (Panels & Docking, Navigator, …). Kept current via the workflow in .agents/skills/silo-domain-modeling/SKILL.md.
  • docs/silo-extensions-repo.md — the external silo-code/silo-extensions repo (cloned at ../silo-extensions): how its third-party extensions relate to this repo — published-SDK lag, npm (not pnpm) build commands, runtime trust / silo.permissions, and how to install a branch without merging. They publish into the registry; discovery is Browse / extensions.getsilo.dev, not cloning that repo.
  • docs/extensions-registry-repo.md — the external silo-code/extensions-registry repo (cloned at ../extensions-registry): git-backed catalog behind extensions.getsilo.dev (humans) and registry.getsilo.dev (app/CLI index). How it relates to in-app Browse / install / update in this monorepo.
  • apps/docs/guide/extension-checklist.md — pre-flight checklist for any extension (bundled or third-party): boundaries, permissions, styling, lifecycle, packaging, stability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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 · 295 lines · 4,204 tokens per session scan A 1f57f44d2b18

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silo AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository silo-code/silo (53 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 4,204 tokens to every session, about $0.0210 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 2026-08-30.