What is skills AGENTS.md?

A project guide file for AI agents working in the tjmaynes/skills repository. It explains the repository layout, tools, setup, and common tasks.

Use it when an agent needs to understand this repository, install or sync skill bundles, inspect its structure, or run its available automation.

Without project context, an agent may look in the wrong place or use the wrong commands. The guide provides the local rules needed to work consistently.

How tjmaynes/skills configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tjmaynes/skills. 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/tjmaynes/skills/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjmaynes/skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 1,310 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,310 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.01310	$0.01310
Opus 5.5	$0.00524	$0.00524
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00262	$0.00262
Haiku 4.5	$0.00131	$0.00131

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a84667ecbc2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills 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 2mo 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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agent Skills Guide

Scope: Repository root (applies to every directory unless a nested AGENTS.md overrides it)

Quick Facts

Primary languages: Markdown, Bash
Package manager: Homebrew via Brewfile (stow, claude-code, codex)
Task runner: just (preferred). Deployment helpers live in scripts/
Skill bundles: agent-context-generator, morning-paper-generator, otto, superblog
Key automation: tree --gitignore -a -L 3 for structure snapshots, GNU stow for skill deployment
CI/CD: Not configured in-repo; rely on local validation before opening PRs

Repository Tour

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├── AGENTS.md             # Project-wide context (this file)
├── Brewfile              # Homebrew bundle for stow, claude-code, codex
├── Justfile              # install/sync/unsync/status recipes
├── README.md             # Project overview and active skill catalog
├── scripts/              # Shell helpers for deploying skills
│   ├── sync.sh
│   ├── unsync.sh
│   └── status.sh
├── skills/               # Individual skill bundles (SKILL.md, references, scripts)
│   ├── agent-context-generator/
│   ├── morning-paper-generator/
│   ├── otto/
│   │   ├── agents/
│   │   ├── references/
│   │   └── scripts/
│   └── superblog/

.git/ and other VCS artifacts omitted for clarity.
Skill bundles:
- skills/agent-context-generator/ — Generates project-level AGENTS.md context with tree snapshots and follow-up checklists.
- skills/morning-paper-generator/ — Creates daily morning pages prompts and scaffolds reflective markdown entries.
- skills/otto/ — Runs an end-to-end design, plan, and build workflow for agentic coding tasks.
- skills/superblog/ — Generates blog posts and cross-platform social copy.
Regenerate this snapshot after structural changes with tree --gitignore -a -L 3.

Tooling & Setup

System requirements: macOS or Linux with Homebrew installed (brew --version).
Install dependencies: just install (installs stow, claude-code, codex).
Skill deployment: just sync symlinks skills/ into ~/.agents/skills via GNU stow. If the claude command is available, it also symlinks them into ~/.claude/skills.
Secrets/config: No secrets tracked here. Downstream skills should document their own environment variables.
CLI permissions: .claude/settings.local.json enumerates whitelisted shell commands for Claude/Codex; extend it if new automation is required.
Tree utility: Prefer tree ≥ 2.0 for --gitignore. If unavailable, install with brew install tree or prune ignored paths manually.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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.

2mo ago Changed · +25 tokens per session a84667ecbc2b
2mo ago First seen · 92 lines · 1,285 tokens per session scan A a289f607db3f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tjmaynes/skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,310 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 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 2026-08-31.

agent-skills collection

skills AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
skills AGENTS.mdtjmaynes/skills	Instructions file	3	1mo ago	MIT	A	1,310	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	5,649	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
vscode ai-customization.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	today	MIT	A	1,907	GitHub Copilot

skills: Instructions file for Codex