search-before-build: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

search-before-build AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from user-w-ui/search-before-build. It costs 669 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidelines for a dual-agent search-before-build package, whose workflows investigate existing products and compare ideas before development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking the package layout, validating the plugin, running its report viewer or installer, and deciding where requested research reports should be saved.
Why use it?
It defines the package structure and validation commands, reducing uncertainty about where shared instructions, scripts, reports, and tests belong.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is user-w-ui/search-before-build's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on search-before-build 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 search-before-build configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to user-w-ui/search-before-build. 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/user-w-ui/search-before-build/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/user-w-ui/search-before-build

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5 $0.00334 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00067 $0.00067

Measured 6d ago against content hash dbcf7e5effeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-before-build 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 6d 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 · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Guidelines

Project Structure & Module Organization

This repository is a dual-agent skill package, not a compiled application. .claude-plugin/plugin.json and .codex-plugin/plugin.json expose the two shared workflows in skills/: search-before-build-assess evaluates ideas and search-before-build-compare examines existing work. Their internal candidate-research workflow lives in references/research-method.md; source-specific rules live in the other files under references/. The one-time installer is scripts/setup-github-mcp.mjs; the temporary result viewer is rendered by scripts/render-report.mjs from assets/report-viewer.html. Keep shared skill instructions platform-neutral. tests/validate_plugin.py checks structure and behavioral invariants. Persisted reports are optional and belong in docs/search-before-build/<topic>/<competitor>.md only after an explicit user request.

Build, Test, and Development Commands

There is no build step. Run these commands from the repository root:

claude plugin validate --strict .
python tests/validate_plugin.py
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/search-before-build

The first command validates the Claude manifest and skill metadata. The second checks both manifests, skill boundaries, reference files, and report structure. The third loads the Claude package for an interactive smoke test. Invoke /search-before-build:search-before-build-assess <idea> or /search-before-build:search-before-build-compare <path> after loading it. Validate the Codex manifest with Codex's plugin validator before publishing a Codex marketplace entry.

For a focused local check, pass one or more contract groups to the Python validator: package, skills, github, or report. Running it without arguments remains the full validation entrypoint.

Coding Style & Naming Conventions

Use UTF-8, LF line endings, four spaces for Python, and two spaces for JSON indentation. Skill directories and names use lowercase kebab-case. Keep SKILL.md instructions imperative, concise, and plain-language. Refer to package resources by their package-relative path, such as references/research-method.md; do not use a host-specific root variable. Put reusable detail one level deep in references/. Do not add product-management jargon or infer competitor capabilities from names, popularity, or search snippets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 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. 6d ago First seen · 32 lines · 669 tokens per session scan A dbcf7e5effeb

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search-before-build AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository user-w-ui/search-before-build (118 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 669 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 per session on Opus 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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