Reflect is an open-source note-taking app that stores notes as Markdown files in a user-chosen folder, with daily notes, wiki links, backlinks, local search, and optional AI features. People use it to write, connect, search, synchronize, and query personal notes on Mac and iPhone. Catalogue add-ons support agent workflows such as interacting with notes through its CLI and related automation.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to team-reflect/reflect-open. 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/team-reflect/reflect-open/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/team-reflect/reflect-openWrote 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/team-reflect/reflect-open/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/team-reflect/reflect-open/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/team-reflect/reflect-open/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/team-reflect/reflect-open/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/team-reflect/reflect-open/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 | $0.05057 | $0.05057 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02023 | $0.02023 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01011 | $0.01011 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00506 | $0.00506 |
Grade A, and why
reflect-open 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Purpose
This document helps AI agents and automated systems interact with the Reflect repo safely and effectively. It summarizes setup, workflows, CI parity, testing, directories, and environment variables.
What is Reflect
Reflect is a modern note‑taking tool with a TypeScript codebase. This repo contains Reflect V2, a rewrite of the original Reflect code-base to make it offline-first, markdown backed, and open source.
Product Principles
Drawn from the product docs — read these for deeper context: V1 Overview · V2 Product Vision · V2 Grounding Brief · Indexing Strategy · Sync Strategy
- Daily notes first. The app opens to today's note. All capture flows into the daily note by default.
- Association over hierarchy.
[[Wiki Links]]replace folders. The note graph is the organizing model; there are no folders. - Markdown is the source of truth. Notes are
.mdfiles (daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md,notes/). SQLite under.reflect/is a rebuildable projection of the notes — with one durable exception: thechat_*tables hold AI chat history, which is not derivable from markdown. Index wipes and rebuilds must leave them untouched. - No Reflect-hosted APIs. LLM calls go directly to user-approved providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). Sync goes to GitHub/iCloud/Git. Never proxy through Reflect infrastructure.
- BYOK AI. AI features use user-supplied keys. Never assume Reflect operates AI infrastructure.
private: trueis a hard block. Notes with this frontmatter flag must never have their content sent to any external service — AI, transcription, or otherwise. Enforce at every call site.- Keyboard-native UX. Every core workflow must be reachable from the keyboard. This is product identity, not polish.
- Minimal UI. Do less, and do it well. Don't add surfaces that compete with the editor.
- Secrets in the OS keychain. API keys and credentials never go in markdown, Git, or
.reflect/. - Portable data. Full export (JSON, markdown, HTML) must work from day one.
- No Electron. Desktop shell is Tauri.
- MIT open-source core. Write as if the code is public and will be critiqued.
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +15 tokens per session f922a80c80ca
- 3d ago Changed · +5 lines · +87 tokens per session 102612ba7749
- 6d ago Changed · +9 lines · +277 tokens per session 8a229b826fb4
- 9d ago Changed · +33 lines · +586 tokens per session 84a73ae8dbe6
- 17d ago Changed · -4 lines · -109 tokens per session 26258274236d
- 1mo ago First seen · 308 lines · 4,201 tokens per session scan A 7b03618c8c8f
reflect-open AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository team-reflect/reflect-open (1,593 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 5,057 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 2026-08-30.
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