agentic-journal AGENTS.md

Project instructions for an activity journal for AI coding agents. It uses Backlog.md, a task-management system, to track project work through connected tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide task creation, execution, and finalization in Backlog.md, as well as work on the journal’s MCP tools, command-line wrappers, reports, and dashboard.
Why use it?
They require the assistant to read the project workflow and search for existing tasks before creating or completing work, reducing duplicate or incorrectly managed tasks.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/varienos/agentic-journal/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/varienos/agentic-journal

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 274 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 274 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00274 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash 480e34f0ac13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-journal 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to DevoxxGenieIDEAPlugin GEMINI.md — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AGENTS.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

<CRITICAL_INSTRUCTION>

BACKLOG WORKFLOW INSTRUCTIONS

This project uses Backlog.md MCP for all task and project management activities.

CRITICAL GUIDANCE

  • If your client supports MCP resources, read backlog://workflow/overview to understand when and how to use Backlog for this project.

  • If your client only supports tools or the above request fails, call backlog.get_backlog_instructions() to load the tool-oriented overview. Use the instruction selector when you need task-creation, task-execution, or task-finalization.

  • First time working here? Read the overview resource IMMEDIATELY to learn the workflow

  • Already familiar? You should have the overview cached ("## Backlog.md Overview (MCP)")

  • When to read it: BEFORE creating tasks, or when you're unsure whether to track work

These guides cover:

  • Decision framework for when to create tasks
  • Search-first workflow to avoid duplicates
  • Links to detailed guides for task creation, execution, and finalization
  • MCP tools reference

You MUST read the overview resource to understand the complete workflow. The information is NOT summarized here.

</CRITICAL_INSTRUCTION>

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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A 480e34f0ac13

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agentic-journal AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository varienos/agentic-journal (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 274 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to DevoxxGenieIDEAPlugin GEMINI.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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