Front-End Checklist is a collection of front-end web development rules organized as a practical review and quality workflow for people and AI agents. Developers use it to audit projects and pull requests, check implementation details, and find guidance for remediation and verification. The catalogue entries provide skills, instructions, MCP tools, and a plugin for using the checklist in agent workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. 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/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-ChecklistWrote 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/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/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/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist/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 | $0.04957 | $0.04957 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01983 | $0.01983 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00991 | $0.00991 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00496 | $0.00496 |
Grade A, and why
Front-End-Checklist 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 — 331 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Front-End Checklist
Repository rules and conventions for contributors and automation tools.
Project Overview
Front-End Checklist is an open-source monorepo providing 385 quality-gated frontend best practice rules with an MCP server for structured review workflows.
- MCP Server:
https://mcp.frontendchecklist.io(11 tools) - Rules:
packages/content/rules/en/<category>/<slug>.mdx - Web App:
apps/web/(Next.js App Router) - MCP Package:
packages/mcp/(TypeScript) - Package Manager: pnpm (workspaces + Turborepo)
Work Tracking
Work in this repo is tracked in Paperclip project FEC (Front-End Checklist, id c5edfe8f-731b-43e8-b805-c52999831084). New tickets get the DAV- prefix.
MCP Usage
When working on frontend implementation, review, debugging, or audit tasks, use the Front-End Checklist MCP server when available so recommendations stay grounded in the project rule corpus.
- Use
review_codefirst for pasted or inspected HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Next.js code. - Use
search_rulesbefore making accessibility, performance, SEO, security, image, privacy, i18n, or testing recommendations. - Use
get_rule,check_rule,fix_rule, orexplain_rulefor rule-specific guidance and remediation. - Use
get_workfloworget_checklist_rulesfor broad launch, accessibility, SEO, security, performance, and testing audits. - Use
audit_urlfor publichttps://pages.
Some clients lazy-load installed MCP tools. If the tools are not initially visible, search for or explicitly request the Front-End Checklist MCP before proceeding with frontend work.
Monorepo Structure
apps/
web/ # Next.js app (App Router)
packages/
mcp/ # MCP server implementation
content/ # Rules MDX content + content-collections config
auth/ # Better-Auth + Prisma + Supabase
design-system/ # Shared UI components
types/ # Shared TypeScript types
data-layer/ # Data access layer
schemas/ # Zod v4 schemas
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 · +15 lines · +356 tokens per session c4bbbac4c20a
- 2mo ago First seen · 316 lines · 4,601 tokens per session scan A 3e950a69d82f
Front-End-Checklist AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist (74,658 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,957 tokens to every session, about $0.0198 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.
Front-End-Checklist AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front-End-Checklist AGENTS.mdthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | Instructions file | 75k | 6d ago | MIT | A | 4,957 | 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 |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| 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 |