synthetic-sciences/openscience is an AI workbench that carries out scientific research by reading papers, forming hypotheses, writing and running code, conducting experiments, analyzing results, and preparing reports. Researchers use it for work in machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry with remote or local models. Catalogue add-ons extend its scientific workflows through skills and instructions.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to synthetic-sciences/openscience. 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/synthetic-sciences/openscience/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscienceWrote 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/synthetic-sciences/openscience/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/synthetic-sciences/openscience/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/synthetic-sciences/openscience/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/synthetic-sciences/openscience/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/synthetic-sciences/openscience/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 | $0.01790 | $0.01790 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00716 | $0.00716 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00358 | $0.00358 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00179 | $0.00179 |
Grade A, and why
openscience 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 1mo 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 — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Working in this repository
This file is for coding agents and new contributors alike. It says where things
are, how to verify a change, and the conventions the code follows. Product
behaviour for the OpenScience agent itself lives in backend/cli/src/agent/prompt/
and backend/cli/AGENTS.md (the instructions the shipped agent reads when it
works inside backend/cli as a project); this file is about the repository.
Map
| Path | What lives there |
|---|---|
backend/cli |
The openscience CLI and local server: sessions, tools, providers, skills, and the harness units in src/harness |
frontend/workspace |
The browser workspace (SolidJS), embedded into the CLI at build time |
frontend/ui |
Shared components, themes, icons (@synsci/ui) |
frontend/desktop |
The Electron shell and its signed self-updater |
frontend/docs |
The documentation site |
frontend/landing |
openscience.sh (own lockfile, not a workspace member) |
tooling/sdk/js |
The TypeScript SDK, generated from the server's OpenAPI contract |
tooling/plugin |
The plugin runtime (@synsci/plugin) |
tooling/util |
Small helpers shared by backend and frontend (@synsci/util) |
tooling/repo |
Setup, SDK regeneration, test sharding, release scripts |
tooling/harbor |
Harbor / Terminal-Bench adapter for the headless openscience run contract |
evals |
Launch evals, cadence lab, and Harbor science-benchmark campaigns |
docs/notes |
Engineering notes: verification loop, release process, extension guides |
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines · +300 tokens per session e683023f3326
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +57 tokens per session d1dc2598d920
- 1mo ago Changed · +16 tokens per session 692efe1b4fd7
- 2mo ago Changed · +17 lines · +904 tokens per session 5ea742610a9f
- 2mo ago Changed · +61 tokens per session a19f185ac016
- 2mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 452 tokens per session scan A f33631907295
openscience AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository synthetic-sciences/openscience (4,348 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,790 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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 2026-08-30.
openscience AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openscience AGENTS.mdsynthetic-sciences/openscience | Instructions file | 4.3k | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 1,790 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |