agent-universe: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

agent-universe AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe. It costs 5,042 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for agent-universe, a project worked on by multiple parallel AI terminal sessions. They explain the project’s current state and require sessions to coordinate through shared files, activity logs, and ownership claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when starting a session, checking project status, claiming files, recording decisions, installing hooks, or coordinating work with other agents.
Why use it?
They reduce conflicts and lost context when several agents work in the same repository at once.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: PostToolUse hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on agent-universe itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-universe configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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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 5.1 $0.05042 $0.05042
Opus 5.5 $0.02017 $0.02017
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01008 $0.01008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00504 $0.00504

Measured 14d ago against content hash ecef3d91e8e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-universe 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 14d 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 · 431 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 431 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SESSION COORDINATION — read FIRST (every session, every time)

This repo runs multiple parallel AI terminal sessions. To stop coordination from disappearing between sessions:

  1. The bus is Devins_Plans/SCRATCHPAD.md. Read its tail + the COORDINATION PROTOCOL header before doing anything. Append your status/decisions/questions there (format: ### ⤷ <FROM> → <TO>: <subject>). Don't start a parallel log.

  2. Log into the activity tracker (once per session): bash scripts/set-role.sh LEAD (or DEVIN / CODEX / COPILOT / GTM / whatever you name your sessions). This writes a per-session role file that the PostToolUse hook reads to stamp your role into ACTIVITY.log. Without it, your edits log as UNKNOWN. Then update your row in Devins_Plans/state/ROSTER.md.

  3. Claim your lane before starting work. Append to .agents/claims.yaml with the file paths you intend to touch. Check for overlapping claims first. Release the claim when done (set released_at).

  4. Install the commit-log hook once per clone: bash scripts/install-hooks.sh (git hooks live in .git/ and don't travel with clone/push — each session/machine must install).

  5. Check cross-repo sync: bash scripts/lanes.sh — shows every repo's version, branch, unpushed/behind/dirty status, and registry-published vs local versions. Read-only, changes nothing.

  6. See roster + activity side by side: bash scripts/status.sh

  7. Validate coordination state: python3 scripts/check.py — catches stale claims, overlapping lanes, migration number conflicts.

  8. OKF convention: every doc in Devins_Plans/ carries YAML frontmatter (type/title/description/tags/timestamp). New docs MUST include it. Lint with node scripts/check-okf.mjs.

  9. DECISIONS.md: if you're wondering "why is X like this?", check Devins_Plans/DECISIONS.md first. If the answer isn't there, add it.

  10. Handoffs: use Devins_Plans/handoffs/ for structured cross-session transfers. Format: {date}-{from}-to-{to}-{topic}.md. Handoffs are immutable — never edit or rename another session's; new state = a new handoff. Role-scoped handoffs generated by scripts/handoff.sh use HANDOFF_<ROLE>_<YYYY-MM-DD>_<HHMM>.md.

  11. Stay in your lane. Claims (rule 3) define your write scope. Everything else — other sessions' handoffs, STATE fields, scratchpad entries, commits — is read-only context. A dangling commit or stale entry is a note on the bus, not a task to absorb. When asked for status or a handoff, report YOUR lane, not everyone's.

  12. Cross-repo coordination: Devins_Plans/CROSSWIRE.md is the machine-local bus for handoffs that span repos. SCRATCHPAD is repo-local; CROSSWIRE is machine-local.


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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.

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agent-universe AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SunrisesIllNeverSee/agent-universe (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,042 tokens to every session, about $0.0202 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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