tfscaffold AGENTS.md

A set of instructions for AI coding agents working on tfscaffold, a Bash tool that organizes Terraform deployments across AWS environments, components, and accounts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents understand tfscaffold’s Terraform scripts, remote state, variable files, bootstrap resources, and component execution.
Why use it?
It gives agents the project background, file layout, principles, and generated configuration rules they need before changing the code.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tfutils/tfscaffold

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade A, and why

tfscaffold 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.

AGENTS.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Guidelines for tfutils/tfscaffold

Master context document for AI coding agents contributing to this repository. Every agent MUST read this file before starting work.


Project Overview

tfscaffold is a Terraform wrapper framework for controlling multi-environment, multi-component, multi-account AWS infrastructure. It handles remote state management, variable file layering, bootstrap bucket creation, and component execution orchestration.

  • Language: Bash (main script: bin/terraform.sh, ~960 LOC)
  • Default branch: master
  • Current release: v2.3.3 (April 2026)
  • Maintainer: Mike Peachey / Jaz (@Zordrak)
  • Minimal dependencies: bash, AWS CLI, terraform, GNU getopt
  • License: MIT

Repository Structure

bin/
  terraform.sh        The tfscaffold script — the core of the project
  docs.sh             Recursive terraform-docs generation helper
bootstrap/            Bootstrap Terraform code for creating the S3 state bucket
                      and DynamoDB lock table
components/           Terraform "components" — root modules run directly
  example/            Example component demonstrating conventions
etc/                  Environment-specific terraform variable files:
                      env_{region}_{environment}.tfvars
                      versions_{region}_{environment}.tfvars
                      global.tfvars, {region}.tfvars, group_{group}.tfvars
lib/                  Optional libraries (e.g. Jenkins pipeline groovy)
modules/
  generic/            Reusable Terraform modules (cognito, iam-role, kms,
                      lambda, s3bucket, sftp, sns, subnets, vpc)
  project/            Project-specific modules (empty by default)
plugin-cache/         Default directory for caching Terraform provider plugins
.github/              CI workflows, agent definitions, issue templates
  agents/             Agent definition files (.agent.md)
  instructions/       Auto-loaded coding standards
  ISSUE_TEMPLATE/     Structured issue forms
docs/
  adr/                Architecture Decision Records

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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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tfscaffold AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tfutils/tfscaffold (281 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,996 tokens to every session, about $0.0150 per session on Opus 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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