OpenSRE is an open-source framework for building AI agents that investigate and resolve production incidents using operational data and tools. It is for site reliability engineers who want customizable incident-response workflows, training, and evaluation on their own infrastructure.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Tracer-Cloud/opensre. 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/Tracer-Cloud/opensre/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tracer-Cloud/opensreWrote 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/tracer-cloud/opensre/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tracer-cloud/opensre/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tracer-cloud/opensre/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/tracer-cloud/opensre/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tracer-cloud/opensre/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 | $0.01584 | $0.01584 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00634 | $0.00634 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00317 | $0.00317 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00158 | $0.00158 |
Grade A, and why
opensre 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 15d 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 — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenSRE agent instructions
Keep this file to repository-wide rules and task-specific reading directions.
Before editing, read applicable package AGENTS.md files; load linked references
only for the work they govern. Put explanations and incident history in references,
not here.
Human-owned files (mandatory)
Agents must never create, edit, rename, move, or delete any SKILL.md anywhere
in this repository or core/agent_harness/prompts/opensre_system_prompt.md,
including frontmatter. A direct request, failing check, or trivial change does
not override this rule. Otherwise, only suggest changes in chat or the PR
(quote current and proposed text), leave the file untouched, and report blocked
work while delivering everything else.
Sole exception — literal Ctrl-H replacements. An agent may apply an exact find-and-replace of a word or sentence when the user supplies both the current text and the replacement text verbatim. The replacement is absolute: swap the given string for the given string, character for character, and touch nothing else — no rewording, no reflowing, no "while I'm here" fixes, no frontmatter bumps unless the user spelled those out the same way. If the old text is ambiguous, missing, or the user described the change rather than dictating it, the exception does not apply; fall back to suggesting.
Skills guide model reasoning, not deterministic pipelines. Supporting scripts
may handle only a few narrow mechanical chores, declared in
references/script-tools.md; decisions, branching, and end-to-end workflows
must not move into those scripts. Suggest a real tool when needed.
Commands and delivery
- Install the environment and push hook:
make install. - Run this checkout:
uv run opensre …from the repository root. - Run Python with
uv run python …. - Follow CI.md for scoped local validation, every push/PR, and CI/review follow-through. Do not add broader local validation requirements.
- Use the PR template, including AI disclosure.
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.
- 15d ago Changed · -278 lines · -5,602 tokens per session 4e5a0d8d5247
- 17d ago Changed · -1 tokens per session 1ea6774a03fa
- 28d ago Changed · -15 lines · -351 tokens per session a365c10a88e0
- 1mo ago Changed · +54 lines · +730 tokens per session 88bfba2382ba
- 2mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +56 tokens per session a20d379056b8
- 2mo ago Changed · -2 lines · -126 tokens per session 9f2e63483cd0
- 2mo ago Changed · -37 lines · -519 tokens per session e36f5ef361f8
- 2mo ago First seen · 378 lines · 7,397 tokens per session scan A f8f585346f27
opensre AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Tracer-Cloud/opensre (12,728 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,584 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 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.
opensre AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| opensre AGENTS.mdTracer-Cloud/opensre | Instructions file | 13k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 1,584 | 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 | 5,516 | 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 |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |