web-of-flaws: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

web-of-flaws AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from ukorvl/web-of-flaws. It costs 868 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for the Web of Flaws project, a catalogue of insecure web-development patterns and safer replacements. Each guide explains why a pattern is exploitable and how to fix it with code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on or contributing to the Web of Flaws repository. It helps organize security guides by topic and keep each rule in a standard Markdown format.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents and developers a consistent, machine-readable way to recognize common web vulnerabilities and apply safer alternatives.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is ukorvl/web-of-flaws's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on web-of-flaws itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything web-of-flaws configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ukorvl/web-of-flaws. 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/ukorvl/web-of-flaws/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ukorvl/web-of-flaws

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When invoked 868 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.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00347 $0.00347
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00174 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00087 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d9389d463d37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-of-flaws 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.

AGENTS.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Instructions for Web of Flaws

Purpose

Web of Flaws is a machine-readable catalog of vulnerable web patterns and safer replacements. Every rule must help a developer or coding agent understand the security boundary, exploitation conditions, and appropriate remediation.

The goal of the project is to serve both humans and machines. It means, all guides should be written in a way that is understandable by humans, but also structured and formatted in a way that can be parsed and processed by machines.

Technical correctness, clear security reasoning, and machine-readable consistency take priority over brevity or stylistic preference.

Instruction Hierarchy

Read this file first, then read the closest nested AGENTS.md for every directory you modify before you start. The closest instruction file takes precedence for its subtree and may override or extend the rules in this file.

  • Do not duplicate parent rules in nested AGENTS.md files.
  • Keep root instructions limited to rules that apply repo-wide.
  • If you add a new module consider to add a new AGENTS.md file in that module to define its own rules if it has any specific requirements valuable for code generation.
  • If you change repository structure, update the instruction hierarchy accordingly.
  • Keep agent instructions in sync with the repository's actual structure and behavior when you make changes.

Stack and Environment

  • This is a documentation-first repository with Python tooling for validation, generation, and repository maintenance.
  • Python code targets the version declared in pyproject.toml.
  • Repository dependency and tool versions are defined by their existing configuration and lockfiles; do not introduce alternative package-management or build systems without an explicit architectural reason.
  • Use repository-provided scripts and configuration as the source of truth for validation behavior.
  • Do not assume tools are installed globally when the repository defines a reproducible way to invoke them.
  • Use paths relative to the repository root unless a local instruction explicitly defines another convention.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +39 lines · +110 tokens per session d9389d463d37
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · +188 tokens per session 0b3c646a6be8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 570 tokens per session scan A 05e6d91d5332

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web-of-flaws AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ukorvl/web-of-flaws (9 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 868 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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