What is tene AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for using tene, a local tool that encrypts and manages secrets such as API keys and passwords. They describe commands for listing, setting, switching, importing, exporting, and injecting secrets into programs.

Use them when running commands with secrets, changing environments, importing or exporting secret values, and checking which secrets are available.

They reduce the risk of putting secrets in source code, configuration files, comments, or manually created environment files. They also explain what to do when a required secret is missing.

How tene-ai/tene configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tene-ai/tene. 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/tene-ai/tene/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tene-ai/tene

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 532 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 532 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.00532	$0.00532
Opus 5.5	$0.00213	$0.00213
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00106	$0.00106
Haiku 4.5	$0.00053	$0.00053

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 940a7ee5c7f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tene 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tene GEMINI.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ

AGENTS.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Secrets Management — tene

This project uses tene for secret management. Secrets are encrypted locally with XChaCha20-Poly1305. No server, no cloud.

Quick Reference

Task	Command
List available secrets	`tene list`
Get a secret value	`tene get <KEY>`
Get secret as JSON	`tene get <KEY> --json`
Set a secret	`tene set <KEY> <VALUE>`
Set from stdin	`echo "value"
Run with secrets injected	`tene run -- <command>`
Import from .env	`tene import .env`
Export to .env	`tene export`
Switch environment	`tene env <name>`
List environments	`tene env list`

Rules

Never hardcode secrets in source code, config files, or comments
Never create .env files — use tene run -- <command> to inject secrets as environment variables
Access secrets via environment variables — process.env.KEY_NAME (Node.js), os.Getenv("KEY_NAME") (Go), os.environ["KEY_NAME"] (Python)
Use tene list first to check what secrets are available before asking the user
If a secret is missing, tell the user to run: tene set <KEY> <VALUE>
Use --json flag for programmatic parsing: tene get KEY --json returns {"name":"KEY","value":"...","environment":"..."}
Environment isolation: secrets are scoped per environment (default, dev, staging, prod). Use --env <name> to target a specific environment

Available Environments

Run tene env list to see all environments and which is active.

Example Workflows

Starting a new feature that needs an API key

Check if key exists: tene list
If not: ask user to run tene set STRIPE_KEY sk_test_xxx
Use in code via process.env.STRIPE_KEY
Run/test with: tene run -- npm test

Running the project

tene run -- npm start          # Node.js
tene run -- go run .           # Go
tene run -- python main.py     # Python

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.

1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 532 tokens per session scan A 940a7ee5c7f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tene AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tene-ai/tene (17 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 532 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

tene: Instructions file for Codex