rosetta: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

rosetta AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from tikoci/rosetta. It costs 595 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for coding agents working in the Rosetta software project. It tells them which project documents to read and where to find rules about design, operations, issues and code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Orienting an agent before non-trivial work, routing questions to the right documentation, following GitHub issue and pull request rules, and finding project-specific skills.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from missing important project context or putting work in the wrong place.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is tikoci/rosetta's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on rosetta 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 rosetta configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade A, and why

rosetta 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 · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex instructions for rosetta

Codex reads this file as the repo-local entrypoint. Keep it short. The canonical project orientation remains CLAUDE.md; durable rationale lives in DESIGN.md; operator/reference material lives in MANUAL.md; narrow normative rules live in .github/instructions/*.instructions.md.

First reads

  • Read CLAUDE.md before non-trivial work. It is the routing index for the repo.
  • Read DESIGN.md when touching retrieval, MCP/TUI behavior, data sources, extraction, skills, command validation, or Docusaurus migration work.
  • Read .github/copilot-instructions.md as the peer short routing note for Copilot, but do not duplicate its rules here.
  • Manually read the matching .github/instructions/*.instructions.md files. Codex does not get Copilot's applyTo selection automatically.
  • Active work is tracked in GitHub Issues (agent-ready / umbrella / blocked labels); PRs close issues via Closes #N — read .github/instructions/issue-pr-linking.instructions.md. tasks/ is a frozen archive (see tasks/README.md); briefing rules are in briefings/README.md.
  • Repo-local skills live in .github/skills/*/SKILL.md (symlinked into .claude/skills/ for Claude Code); read the relevant file when a user asks for that workflow, such as picking the next issue, promoting an idea, re-extracting, verifying acceptance criteria, or gating a PR's review threads before claiming it's mergeable.

Development defaults

  • Rosetta is Bun + TypeScript. Prefer bun, bun test, and make verify where applicable; do not swap in Node/npm-oriented substitutes.
  • MCP, query, classifier, TUI, and canonicalizer behavior should route through shared core code, usually src/query.ts, with src/mcp.ts and src/browse.ts kept as thin adapters.
  • Rosetta is read-only documentation/schema context. It does not connect to or modify a user's router.
  • Community RouterOS skills are supplemental, not official MikroTik docs; keep the attribution boundary visible when they surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 595 tokens per session scan A fafcb40d5c5f

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rosetta AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 595 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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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