Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus. 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/SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SunnyKTuladhar/lateralusWrote 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/sunnyktuladhar/lateralus/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sunnyktuladhar/lateralus/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sunnyktuladhar/lateralus/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.01800 | $0.01800 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00900 | $0.00900 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00360 | $0.00360 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00180 | $0.00180 |
Grade B, and why
lateralus AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 2 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
Two plain shell scripts. Both install a `PostToolUse` hook and wire it into `~/.claude/settings.json`. Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- Work from curl-pipe or local clone How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
lateralus — project context
Single source of truth for all AI agents working in this repo.
CLAUDE.mdandGEMINI.mdboth point here.
Project overview
Lateralus is a lateral-thinking skill for AI coding agents that breaks debugging tunnel vision. It surfaces the user's end goal and solution horizon (long-term, MVP, POC, workaround), then generates goal-appropriate alternatives in two tiers: grounded-but-unlikely and wild/speculative reframes.
Ships as a Copilot repo skill and direct install via install.sh / install.ps1.
What lives where
lateralus/
├── README.md # Front door (product pitch + install one-liners)
├── INSTALL.md # Full install matrix
├── CONTRIBUTING.md # Dev guide and file ownership
├── AGENTS.md # This file — maintainer context for all agents
├── CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md # Thin stubs pointing here
│
├── install.sh # macOS / Linux / WSL installer
├── install.ps1 # Windows PowerShell installer
│
├── skills/ # ALL skills — single source of truth
│ ├── lateralus/
│ │ ├── SKILL.md # Full debugging skill
│ │ └── README.md
│ └── lateralus-brainstorm/
│ └── SKILL.md # Full brainstorming / plan-mode skill
│
├── agents/ # Subagents — single source of truth
│ ├── lateralus-ideator-ground.md # Generates Tier 1 grounded hypotheses
│ ├── lateralus-ideator-balanced.md # Generates middle-ground hypotheses
│ ├── lateralus-ideator-wild.md # Generates Tier 3 wild reframes
│ └── lateralus-workaround.md # Makeshift bypasses with debt log
│
├── hooks/ # PostToolUse hook implementations
│ ├── lateralus-hook.py # Python hook (macOS / Linux / WSL)
│ └── lateralus-hook.ps1 # PowerShell hook (Windows, requires pwsh 6+)
│
├── .github/skills/ # Copilot-discoverable mirrors (CI-synced)
│ ├── lateralus/SKILL.md
│ └── lateralus-brainstorm/SKILL.md
│
└── .github/workflows/
└── sync-skill.yml # Syncs skills/ → .github/skills/ on push to main
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 First seen · 166 lines · 1,800 tokens per session scan B 0d3ad4af1362
lateralus AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,800 tokens to every session, about $0.0090 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, applying the notice (cutover) and fallback chain (never fail the build).
spec-kit AGENTS.md
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