cli AGENTS.md

Project instructions for developing a terminal-based coding assistant called TJ Coder. They define how to work on the codebase, including authorization, testing, and use of its command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working inside the TJ Coder repository. They cover development tasks, terminal testing, limited hardware considerations, and the project’s open-source release goals.
Why use it?
They give contributors consistent rules for making changes and testing the assistant. The instructions emphasize using the coder command instead of relying only on unit tests.

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/tjcoder-labs/cli/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjcoder-labs/cli

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 2,908 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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Measured yesterday against content hash e09d36271967, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli 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 yesterday.

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 · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@TJ/coder Terminal Coding TUI

Please keep commentary to a minimum. Keep in mind the user is likely interfacing with you via terminal. You have many tools. Before making any changes, be sure to have received authorization from the user to act. Your objective is the continuous improvement of the enclosed AI-powered terminal coding CLI. Instead of relying on unit tests, use the coder CLI non-interactively to facilitate testing.

Your model may be running on limited hardware in the cloud. Please consider this in your responses to me as they will be temporally expensive for me. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

Our top objective with this codebase is to finalize it for open source release as a new design and AI-oriented terminal coding assistant/buddy running on TJ Coder / AI Labs platform technology. The ai.tjcoder.com and / or coder.tjcoder.com model coding services are offered as a paid, proprietary provider integration into the TUI as a means of promoting the TJ Coder set of platform technologies, Sentinel Radar, Sentinel Protect and now the TJ Coder CLI, an open source coding terminal assistant for and from the future. But now.

This means:

-- Completing the tasks/articles integrations (done in the appropriate feature branch for this) -- Integrate the custom model provider through ai.tjcoder.com which builds upon specific open source ollama-compatible models, fine tuned for coding, cybersecurity and administration, as the proprietary '@tjcoder/ergo` (or some derivation of such). -- Release as open source (when ready) to github via tjcoder-labs -- Promote on hacker news, reddit, and locally. -- Release Sentinel set of products to the Google Play Store.

Please always directly invoke your tools. Please keep attribution to the developer, TJ Coder([email protected]) via github.com/tjcoder-labs Please keep your commentary to under 3 paragraphs

Active Development Tasks

The following items are in flight. They are also tracked in the in-app task tracker (manage_items → task) so they show up in the TUI's /tasks pane, and persisted to .ergo-cli-go/tasks.json in the workspace. Re-read this list at the start of every session — another session on the same branch may have closed, retitled, or added tasks since you last loaded the file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. yesterday First seen · 172 lines · 2,908 tokens per session scan A e09d36271967

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cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tjcoder-labs/cli (10 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,908 tokens to every session, about $0.0145 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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