startup-credits AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for sourcey/startup-credits, a public YAML repository containing startup-credit entities and limited supporting files. They define what the repository may contain and what must remain in private systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when contributing entity YAML files, repository documentation, or narrowly scoped GitHub metadata and workflows.
Why use it?
They prevent executable code, generated catalog data, internal contracts, and other out-of-scope material from being added to the public repository.

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/sourcey/startup-credits/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sourcey/startup-credits

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 465 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 465 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 $0.00465 $0.00465
Opus 5 $0.00233 $0.00233
Sonnet 5 $0.00093 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00047 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0bf4817a27a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-credits 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 2d 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 · 48 lines

What it actually says

Repository boundary

This is sourcey/startup-credits: the thin public YAML contribution repository. “Startup Credits” is only this GitHub repository's name.

Allowed:

  • entities/**/*.yaml;
  • concise contributor, legal, and repository-boundary documentation; and
  • minimal GitHub metadata and YAML workflows that invoke digest-pinned tools owned by the private Sourcey workspace.

Forbidden:

  • executable code, packages, applications, scripts, CLIs, tests, fixtures, or build systems;
  • contracts, schemas, OpenAPI/MCP generators, scanners, evidence operations, captures, trust material, authority objects, prompts, source inventories, or internal state;
  • generated catalog or release snapshots, manual live selectors, compatibility layers, shims, duplicated definitions, or consumer-specific copies; and
  • semantic-version changes, v2 shapes, or product/package naming decisions without Kam's explicit approval.

Pull-request CI processes only changed Entity files and their exact identity dependency closure. It must never rebuild the full catalog. Merge is the sole human activation and every live surface advances from the same resulting live head.

The public sourcey/validation status must start automatically for an opened or updated data pull request, use the exact digest-pinned workspace-owned verifier, and return actionable field errors before private review. sourcey/admission is a separate Sourcey-owned evidence gate and never contributor-authored work.

Evidence review is semantic, not a verbatim-copy test. Published factual values need located source support; neutral Sourcey titles, summaries, descriptions, and taxonomy classifications may faithfully express cited facts in different words. Sourcey-owned IDs, encodings, and capture metadata are not claims that a vendor page must literally contain. The private Catalog policy and evaluator are the sole authority for that distinction; this repository does not restate or implement it.

entities/ is the only public data collection. Programs and Offers are nested in their owning Entity document; repository evidence remains in that same document but outside the shared entity envelope. Do not add a generic data/ wrapper or another top-level collection unless Kam explicitly approves a genuinely independent public authoring surface.

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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 465 tokens per session scan A 0bf4817a27a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

startup-credits AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sourcey/startup-credits (140 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 465 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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.

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