refract: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

refract AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from valternunez/refract. It costs 988 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Refract, a tool for checking web pages across different screen sizes. It includes playbooks, which are short recipes for common checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check for clipped elements and horizontal scrolling, compare page screenshots before and after a change, and inspect pages that require a login.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a repeatable way to verify responsive fixes and catch layout regressions before merging.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is valternunez/refract's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on refract 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 refract configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to valternunez/refract. 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/valternunez/refract/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/valternunez/refract

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Measured 2mo ago against content hash a1a7d7eb4805, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refract 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 2mo 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 · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refract — agent playbooks

Short recipes for when to reach for Refract and what to do with the output. Each is 5–15 lines: when to use it, the calls in order, what to look for.

render_responsive is live and returns, in one response: structured findings (JSON keyed by preset), absolute saved paths, and a downscaled preview per viewport.

Playbook: verify a responsive bug fix

When: you changed CSS to fix a layout bug at a specific width.

  1. render_responsive({ url: "http://localhost:3000/page", viewports: ["iphone-15", "ipad-mini", "macbook-air-13"] })
  2. Look at the returned preview for the viewport you fixed.
  3. Confirm the horizontal_overflow / element_clipped finding for that viewport is gone from the response. If it's still present, the fix didn't take.

Playbook: visual-diff before merge

When: you want before/after proof a change didn't break the layout anywhere.

  1. On the base branch — MCP: diff_responsive({ url, update: true }), or CLI: refract diff <url> --update --freeze — snapshots the baseline into ./refract-baseline/{preset}.png.
  2. Apply the change, then compare — MCP: diff_responsive({ url }) (returns a status per viewport + a diff image for each change), or CLI: refract diff <url> --freeze.
  3. unchanged everywhere → safe to merge. Any changed gives the % of pixels and a diff image/report.html (baseline │ current │ diff). The CLI exits non-zero on any change, so it drops straight into CI. Re-run with update/--update to accept. Tip: pass injectCss to hide live clocks/ads so they don't read as false changes.

Playbook: screenshot a page behind a login

When: the page you need to verify is auth-gated (a dashboard, account settings).

  1. Get a Playwright storage-state JSON. If the project has e2e auth states (e.g. e2e/.auth/*.json), use one of those. Otherwise a human runs once: npx playwright codegen --save-storage=auth.json <login-url>, logs in, closes it.
  2. render_responsive({ url: "https://app/dashboard", storageState: "./auth.json" })
  3. The previews show the logged-in page (not the login wall); read findings as usual. If you still see the login screen, the state is stale — regenerate it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 2mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 988 tokens per session scan A a1a7d7eb4805

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refract AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository valternunez/refract (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 988 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 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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