Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanillagreencom/kendex. 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/vanillagreencom/kendex/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendexWrote 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/vanillagreencom/kendex/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vanillagreencom/kendex/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vanillagreencom/kendex/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/vanillagreencom/kendex/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vanillagreencom/kendex/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 | $0.01417 | $0.01417 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00567 | $0.00567 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00283 | $0.00283 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00142 | $0.00142 |
Grade C, and why
kendex AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- generated by bot-instructions from kendex.toml, kendex-local.toml, .kendex-generated.json, SKILL.md, schemas/renders.md, AGENTS.md. Edit [bot-instructions] in the effective manifest or the spec copy, then re-render. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
kendex
Desktop app and thin CLI (Rust + Tauri + React) for managing AI coding-harness customizations: agents, skills, hooks, commands, MCP servers, plugins and Pi extensions across a global scope and per-project scopes. This repository is also the default catalog every kendex install subscribes to (agents/, skills/, hooks/, commands/, pi-extensions/).
Commands
tools/setup: arms the commit chain in a fresh clone, beside the commit-guards commit-msg gate. A stray commit-msg hook in the git hooks directory calling a repo-local lane this repository lacks blocks every commit; delete it and runtools/setupagain.tools/guard: the last lane of the pre-commit chain, named byCOMMIT_GUARDS_PRE_COMMIT_LOCAL; read the script, it is the list of repo-specific rules.npm ci --prefix ui: installs the UI, in the main checkout only.KENDEX_SOURCE_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD) cargo build --release -p kendex-cli: the self-install; copy the binary to~/.cargo/bin/kendexbefore runningkendex applyorkendex verifyon this tree.cargo test -p kendex-app -- --ignored regenerate_bindings: regeneratesui/src/bindings.tsafter a command-surface change.
Conventions
- Before writing or changing code, load the code-quality skill.
- Open work lives in Linear (team KEN); scratch goes to
tmp/(gitignored), never/tmp. A plan, a research report or a measurement is an attachment on its Linear issue or a file undertmp/, never a tracked file underdocs/. - A lane or research run that records another repository's data writes it to that repository's own tracker, never into the kendex tree.
- A change under
crates/orui/ships a changelog fragment, one consumer-facing list item inchangelog.d/<section>/<name>.mdperchangelog.d/README.md, or says[no-changelog]in the subject; the commit-guards commit-msg gate holds it, andchangelog-entries --collatefolds the fragments in at release. Compatible catalog content writes no kendex fragment and causes no kendex release. Released execution code and engine compatibility requirements followchangelog.d/README.md. - A source with a tracked render (
skills/,agents/<n>.md,hooks/<n>) lands the render in the same commit; the rule is inskills/AGENTS.md. kendex-local.tomlis this repository's own manifest. A rule for kendex alone, not for every install of a catalog skill, goes in its[skill-instructions], which the render writes into.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md;skills/ships to every install.- Review bots follow
.github/instructions/code-review.md, which Code Review Rules below points them at, and.github/instructions/*.instructions.md; engineering rules are the code-quality skill, round scope the dev skill, finding dispositionsskills/reviewer/references/finding-disposition.md. - A doc under
docs/architecture/is one principle; update it when a change makes a claim in it false, never beside a code change that falsifies nothing. A decision record exists only under the decider skill's bar. docs/legal/(privacy.md,terms.md) is product content shipped to users: the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy the first-run accept step records. It takes no "Read when" line.
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 13d5852daed5
- 13d ago Changed · -5 tokens per session 9d7d815710f6
- 21d ago Changed · +1 lines · +26 tokens per session b338f70975b3
- 22d ago Changed · -3 lines · +15 tokens per session 59302da389a0
- 23d ago Changed · +11 lines · +427 tokens per session 8fdd079c0faf
- 25d ago Changed · +1 lines · +28 tokens per session f025c3d50c5a
- 28d ago Changed · +12 tokens per session cdc4f967aea1
- 29d ago Changed · +1 lines · +65 tokens per session 0f81f638d8d4
- 1mo ago Changed cf6b0e9769df
- 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 849 tokens per session scan C 619dbd223492
kendex AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,417 tokens to every session, about $0.0057 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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