Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to trevhud/rote. 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/trevhud/rote/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trevhud/roteWrote 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/trevhud/rote/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/trevhud/rote/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/trevhud/rote/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/trevhud/rote/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/trevhud/rote/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 | $0.06175 | $0.06175 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02470 | $0.02470 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01235 | $0.01235 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00617 | $0.00617 |
Grade A, and why
rote 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 10d 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 — 435 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — driving rote as an installed tool
This file is for a coding agent (Codex, Cursor, a plain API agent, or
Claude Code without the plugin) that has been asked to use rote to
compile a skill. It covers the operational facts rote --help can't tell
you. If you are editing rote itself, read CLAUDE.md instead — that's the
contributor manual and does not apply here.
rote compiles an Anthropic-style skill (SKILL.md + optional
references/) into a deterministic, durable workflow: a pipeline.yaml IR
plus runnable runtime code. The north-star command is rote compile.
Invocation contract
Run it with uvx — nothing to install but uv:
uvx --from rote-cli rote <args>
- The PyPI package is
rote-cli; the command (and import name) isrote. The published wheel ships norote-cliexecutable, souvx rote-cli ...fails. Always--from rote-cli rote. - Unreleased features: swap the origin, same command —
uvx --from git+https://github.com/trevhud/rote rote <args>. - Do not clone or build a venv;
uvxhandles isolation.
Preflight first: rote doctor
Before spending money on a compilation, run the read-only preflight — it costs nothing and tells you whether a run can even succeed:
uvx --from rote-cli rote doctor --json
--json gives {version, python, drivers:[{name,available,reason}], dependencies:[{module,used_for,installed}], runtimes, mcp_servers:[{name,url,auth}], apps, ok}. Gate on ok (true iff at least one compiler driver is available and
every base dependency imports — rote doctor also exits non-zero otherwise).
Each unavailable driver's reason is an actionable fix, and a missing
dependency's line names the reinstall command. dependencies are the base
install (the MCP client and httpx). runtimes lists the optional extras (dbos,
temporal, serve, api, openai-api), which never fail the check. rote run on
an app whose runtime extra is missing answers action_required (exit 2) with
a plan that installs it, and the same command plus --yes applies it;
compile, emit and init only print the install hint and go on. It also surfaces MCP
servers whose auth is expired/not authenticated (those would park a run) and
registered apps whose directory has gone missing. It does NOT probe CLI
subscription auth for claude/codex — that's only verified at run time.
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.
- 10d ago Changed · +11 lines · +187 tokens per session 547a40f78397
- 12d ago Changed · +35 lines · +556 tokens per session aa8ed85643c2
- 13d ago Changed · +30 lines · +425 tokens per session 29fd4ed0bf35
- 14d ago Changed · +29 lines · +505 tokens per session 2e558120f628
- 15d ago Changed · +7 lines · +129 tokens per session 2cb3b1231041
- 17d ago Changed · +4 lines · +71 tokens per session de61832c0f0d
- 18d ago Changed · +11 tokens per session 3401ab012bc1
- 19d ago Changed · +3 lines · +56 tokens per session f81e9d70ec5b
- 2mo ago First seen · 316 lines · 4,235 tokens per session scan A 16f3d60be335
rote AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository trevhud/rote (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 6,175 tokens to every session, about $0.0247 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.
rote AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rote AGENTS.mdtrevhud/rote | Instructions file | 8 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 6,175 | 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 | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 275k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |