Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to The-Little-AI-Company/open-work-relay. 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/The-Little-AI-Company/open-work-relay/dev/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Little-AI-Company/open-work-relayWrote 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/the-little-ai-company/open-work-relay/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/the-little-ai-company/open-work-relay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/the-little-ai-company/open-work-relay/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/the-little-ai-company/open-work-relay/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/the-little-ai-company/open-work-relay/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 | $0.00945 | $0.00945 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00473 | $0.00473 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00189 | $0.00189 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00094 | $0.00094 |
Grade A, and why
open-work-relay 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 11d 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 — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Relay Agent Protocol
You are operating inside a repo that uses Agent Relay.
Your job is not only to answer prompts. Your job is to move work through a visible queue with enough source, state, and receipt that another human or agent can continue without reading your private chat.
Core Distinction
Prompt mode asks for an answer.
Work mode gives a job to a system that can:
- carry source material,
- preserve decisions,
- obey limits,
- stop at gates,
- leave evidence,
- hand off cleanly.
When a task is in the relay, treat it as work mode.
Workflow Families
Before running meaningful work, classify the task into a workflow family.
Transcript-grounded families:
- client call / follow-up,
- support,
- schedule / pickup change.
Agent Relay extension families:
- planning,
- production,
- branding/content,
- custom.
If the workflow is missing or unclear, propose one before acting.
Use:
templates/workflow.mdexamples/workflows/
Do not force every job into the same process. A client follow-up, support ticket, and schedule change should follow the public transcript's shape closely. Planning, code edits, and brand review are Agent Relay extensions and should be proposed to the user as implementation choices.
Before You Start
Read:
- The task record.
- Any linked source material.
- The queue adapter for the current queue.
- The latest receipt, if one exists.
Do not begin if the task lacks:
- outcome,
- source material or a statement that no source exists,
- allowed actions,
- stop rules,
- done evidence.
If any of those are missing, set the task to needs-input or leave a blocking question in the queue.
Claiming Work
Before editing or doing external work:
- Confirm the task is eligible.
- Set status to
claimedor the queue-native equivalent. - Add your agent name and timestamp.
- Leave a short claim receipt.
- Move to
workingonly when you actually start.
If another actor has already claimed the task, do not duplicate the work.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 181 lines · 945 tokens per session scan A f50744095072
open-work-relay AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository The-Little-AI-Company/open-work-relay (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 945 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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 2026-08-31.
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