Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to TonyCasey/lisa. 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/TonyCasey/lisa/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TonyCasey/lisaWrote 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/tonycasey/lisa/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tonycasey/lisa/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tonycasey/lisa/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/tonycasey/lisa/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tonycasey/lisa/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 | $0.06869 | $0.06869 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02748 | $0.02748 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01374 | $0.01374 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00687 | $0.00687 |
Grade A, and why
lisa 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 749 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Lisa Development Guide
Multi-CLI Architecture
Lisa supports multiple AI coding assistants through a unified, event-driven architecture:
Supported CLIs
| CLI Tool | Integration | Directory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Lifecycle hooks | .claude/ |
Stable |
| OpenCode | Plugin system | .opencode/ |
Stable |
Shared Resources
Both CLIs share resources from .lisa/:
.lisa/ # Source of truth (shared)
├── skills/ # Memory, tasks, lisa, jira, git
├── rules/ # Coding standards
├── .env # Storage configuration
.claude/ # Claude Code specific
├── settings.json # Hook commands registered here
├── skills/
│ └── lisa/ -> ../../.lisa/skills # Subdirectory symlink
└── rules/
└── lisa/ -> ../../.lisa/rules # Subdirectory symlink
.opencode/ # OpenCode specific
├── plugin/
│ └── lisa.js # Bundled plugin
└── skills/
├── memory/ -> ../../.lisa/skills/memory
├── tasks/ -> ../../.lisa/skills/tasks
└── ... # Individual skill symlinks
Note: Lisa uses subdirectory symlinks to preserve any existing user files in .claude/ or .opencode/.
Event Mapping
Lisa events map to CLI-specific lifecycle hooks:
| Lisa Event | Claude Code | OpenCode |
|---|---|---|
session:start (startup) |
SessionStart trigger=startup |
session.created |
session:start (resume) |
SessionStart trigger=resume |
session.updated |
session:start (compact) |
SessionStart trigger=compact |
session.compacted |
session:stop (idle) |
Stop |
session.idle |
prompt:submit |
UserPromptSubmit |
message.updated |
CLI Selection
During lisa init, users can select which CLIs to support:
# Interactive (prompts for selection)
lisa init
# Non-interactive
lisa init --claude-only # Only Claude Code
lisa init --opencode-only # Only OpenCode
lisa init -y # Both (default)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 749 lines · 6,869 tokens per session scan A f6afdcda920e
lisa AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TonyCasey/lisa (9 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,869 tokens to every session, about $0.0275 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.
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