aix: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

aix AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from thoreinstein/aix. It costs 1,988 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase guide for aix, a Go command-line tool that manages AI coding-assistant settings across several tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps developers compile the tool, run all or selected tests, check for data races, measure test coverage, format Go code, and run static checks.
Why use it?
It records the commands and coding conventions needed to build, test, format, lint, and inspect the project safely.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: $ARGUMENTS substitution, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

This is thoreinstein/aix's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on aix itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything aix configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to thoreinstein/aix. 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/thoreinstein/aix/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thoreinstein/aix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Grade A, and why

aix 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.

AGENTS.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Instructions for aix

aix is a unified Go CLI for managing AI coding assistant configurations across platforms (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI). See docs/adr/001-unified-agent-cli.md for full architecture.

Development Commands

Build

go build ./cmd/aix                      # Build CLI binary
go build ./...                          # Build all packages

Test

go test ./...                           # All tests
go test ./internal/skill/...            # Single package
go test -run TestSkillParser ./...      # Single test by name
go test -v -run TestSkillParser/valid ./...  # Subtest by name
go test -race ./...                     # With race detection
go test -cover ./...                    # With coverage
go test -coverprofile=coverage.out ./... && go tool cover -html=coverage.out

Lint & Format

go fmt ./...                            # Format code
goimports -w .                          # Organize imports
go vet ./...                            # Static analysis
golangci-lint run                       # Full linting suite

Code Style

Imports

Group imports in this order, separated by blank lines:

import (
    // Standard library
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "strings"

    // External dependencies
    "github.com/spf13/cobra"
    "gopkg.in/yaml.v3"

    // Internal packages
    "github.com/thoreinstein/aix/internal/config"
    "github.com/thoreinstein/aix/internal/platform"
)

Naming Conventions

Element Convention Example
Packages lowercase, single word platform, skill, mcp
Interfaces noun or -er suffix Platform, Validator, Parser
Constructors New prefix NewValidator(strict bool)
Errors Err prefix ErrMissingName, ErrInvalidToolSyntax
Test files _test.go suffix validator_test.go
Test functions Test prefix TestValidator_Validate

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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aix AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thoreinstein/aix (16 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,988 tokens to every session, about $0.0080 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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