Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to sponge-b0b/Polaris. 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/sponge-b0b/Polaris/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sponge-b0b/PolarisWrote 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/sponge-b0b/polaris/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sponge-b0b/polaris/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sponge-b0b/polaris/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/sponge-b0b/polaris/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sponge-b0b/polaris/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 | $0.04419 | $0.04419 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01768 | $0.01768 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00884 | $0.00884 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00442 | $0.00442 |
Grade A, and why
Polaris 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 7d 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 — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Purpose and Authority
These are the operating rules for coding agents working on Polaris.
AGENTS.md is primarily prescriptive agent policy: how an agent must work in this
repository. It is not a second authoritative copy of project architecture.
At the start of a task:
- Match claims to the correct authority:
- code, configuration, executable checks, and relevant tests outside
legacy/→ current implementation reality; - accepted CCL contracts → canonical material delivery semantics where a CCL contract exists;
- accepted ADRs outside
legacy/→ active architectural rationale/decisions not superseded by a canonical CCL field; - active architecture documents outside
legacy/→ current architectural description; - an active root
wiki/entities/, when present → derived architectural knowledge; legacy/v0_1/→ historical donor/reference material only.
- code, configuration, executable checks, and relevant tests outside
- If applicable authorities materially disagree, surface
[source-conflict]. Do not silently choose whichever source makes the task easiest. - Merge these repository rules with narrower user instructions for the active task.
Where a material semantic coordinate is represented by CCL, downstream prose may explain or project it but may not override it.
Proactive Attention Duty
At any time during analysis, planning, architecture, design, specification, ticketing, implementation, verification, review, remediation, or ordinary repository work, surface material concerns promptly when you notice them.
The current task is the immediate work surface, not the boundary of Attention. Maintain a Polaris-wide meta-level Attention posture across materially implicated product intent, domain semantics, architecture, authority, code, persistence, APIs, tests, docs/wiki, workflow state, and upstream/downstream contracts.
Use this materiality threshold:
Would a competent architect who understood Polaris as a whole want this brought to their attention now?
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.
- 7d ago Changed · +6 lines · +44 tokens per session 74653d4f6719
- 8d ago Changed · -88 lines · -4,068 tokens per session 47e1ef54cc42
- 22d ago Changed · +24 lines · +536 tokens per session 2e778ee016dd
- 28d ago Changed · +48 lines · +918 tokens per session a7c989e5c4f5
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +115 tokens per session 1249a5260378
- 1mo ago Changed · +74 lines · +1,131 tokens per session c4de2dae0097
- 1mo ago Changed · +51 lines · +587 tokens per session 13a27ac29edb
- 1mo ago Changed · +31 lines · +617 tokens per session 2925f1c7c860
- 1mo ago Changed · +52 lines · +1,095 tokens per session aae6fdf3dd29
- 1mo ago First seen · 341 lines · 3,444 tokens per session scan A c27bdc07fca0
Polaris AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sponge-b0b/Polaris (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 4,419 tokens to every session, about $0.0177 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.
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