Kaneo is an open-source project-management application for organizing work with kanban boards, issues, and issue tracking. Teams use it to manage projects, and its self-hosted design lets them keep the application and data under their control. The catalogue contains skills, rules, instructions, and an MCP integration for working with Kaneo.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to usekaneo/kaneo. 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/usekaneo/kaneo/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneoWrote 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/usekaneo/kaneo/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/usekaneo/kaneo/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/usekaneo/kaneo/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/usekaneo/kaneo/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/usekaneo/kaneo/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 | $0.01171 | $0.01171 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00468 | $0.00468 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00234 | $0.00234 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00117 | $0.00117 |
Grade A, and why
kaneo 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 8d 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 — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Kaneo
Kaneo is a fast, simple, self-hosted project manager. The Hono API owns domain behavior and authorization; the React app uses its typed client. PostgreSQL stores durable state, events and WebSockets keep clients current, and Redis is optional for delivery across API instances.
People use Kaneo to manage active work on instances they control. Changes reach existing tasks, workspaces, and deployments, not just a fresh dev setup. Protect what they rely on: quick boards, straightforward workflows, reliable live updates, and self-hosting that stays simple. A change that weakens those needs a compelling product reason.
Treat this guide as a set of defaults. The developer's request takes precedence.
What matters
- Keep routine work simple. Solve the user's problem with the smallest model that makes the behavior clear. Read the relevant code first, but do not keep complexity just because it is already there.
- Keep modules small. Across the whole repo, give each file one responsibility: one component per file, and pure helpers and types in their own modules next to the code that uses them, with tests beside them. When a file grows a second concern, split it into a folder. Do not extract one-line wrappers; inline those.
- Keep boards fast. Task-heavy views and realtime updates should not move or render more data than they need.
- Keep self-hosting easy. A single instance must work without Redis or another managed service. Support both bundled same-origin and separately hosted API and web deployments.
- Respect workspace boundaries. The API enforces authentication and permissions; a hidden UI control is not an authorization check. Never leak secrets or private workspace data through responses, logs, events, WebSockets, or MCP.
Where code lives
apps/api— Hono routes, controllers, database, events, integrations, and WebSockets.apps/web— React UI, fetchers, TanStack Query hooks, and realtime cache updates.apps/mobile— Expo/React Native app for Android and iOS with its own HTTP client; seeapps/mobile/AGENTS.md.packages/libs— typed Hono client and URL helpers;packages/permissions— permission vocabulary and built-in roles.packages/mcp— published stdio MCP package.apps/docs— product and API docs;apps/site— public site and docs host.charts/kaneo— Helm chart;tests/apiandtests/api-integration— API tests.
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.
- 8d ago Changed · +1 lines · +35 tokens per session 394376dcf4b4
- 26d ago Changed · +1 lines · +67 tokens per session aa4fffbb2f05
- 28d ago Changed · -77 lines · -1,045 tokens per session d71596c93670
- 29d ago Changed · +1 lines · +55 tokens per session a72839f0c6ec
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +51 tokens per session dfc6395fbcf0
- 1mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 2,008 tokens per session scan A c6907ce385ad
kaneo AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository usekaneo/kaneo (9,597 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,171 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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.
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