Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to tobert/otel-cli. 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/tobert/otel-cli/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobert/otel-cliWrote 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/tobert/otel-cli/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tobert/otel-cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tobert/otel-cli/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/tobert/otel-cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tobert/otel-cli/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 | $0.02427 | $0.02427 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00971 | $0.00971 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00485 | $0.00485 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00243 | $0.00243 |
Grade A, and why
otel-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 13d 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 — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
otel-cli agent guide
otel-cli sends OpenTelemetry spans from shell scripts and other places where a program call is the best option. It is one Go binary that needs no configuration to run.
Scripts depend on this behavior. Do not change it without a maintainer decision:
- With no endpoint, otel-cli is in non-recording mode. It exports nothing and exits 0.
- An export error does not change the exit code. otel-cli exits 0 and prints nothing.
--fail(OTEL_CLI_FAIL) makes an export error exit 1.--verbose(OTEL_CLI_VERBOSE) prints errors to stderr.otel-cli execexits with the exit code of the child, also when the export fails. A nonzero child exit code has priority over--fail.
Writing style
This style applies to documentation, --help text, error messages, code comments,
commit messages, PR descriptions and CHANGELOG.md.
The style is inspired by Simplified Technical English (STE). We use these rules, not the full STE dictionary:
- Write one topic in each sentence. Keep an instruction to 20 words or fewer and a description to 25 words or fewer.
- Use the imperative for instructions: "Run
go buildbeforego test." - Use the active voice and name the actor: "otel-cli exits 1", not "1 is returned".
- Use common words. Do not use idioms, figures of speech or jokes. Some readers have English as a second language, and some readers have only part of the context.
- Use one term for one concept. Do not change words for variety. The Terms table is the source.
- Give specific values: the flag, the environment variable, the default, the exit code.
- Put the most important information first. The reader can lose the end of the text.
- Show the correct example before the explanation. If you must show an incorrect example, put the correct one first and mark the error.
- Use American spelling.
- Do not add decoration: no emoji headings, no marketing words.
Before: The span might not get sent if something goes wrong with the connection.
After: If the export fails, otel-cli sends nothing and exits 0. Add
--failto exit 1.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 241 lines · 2,427 tokens per session scan A 28193efd90d2
otel-cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tobert/otel-cli (14 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,427 tokens to every session, about $0.0097 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 2026-10-25.
otel-cli AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| otel-cli AGENTS.mdtobert/otel-cli | Instructions file | 14 | 6d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 2,427 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |