excalibur: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

excalibur AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from viemccoy/excalibur. It costs 1,689 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of AGENTS.md instructions for the Excalibur project. AGENTS.md is a file that tells coding agents how to behave and structure their work in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent works on Excalibur and needs to follow the repository's agent instructions.
Why use it?
It gives the agent project-specific guidance about the project's shape, working focus, and behavioural rules. The description does not provide the individual rules in detail.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,689 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,689 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.01689 $0.01689
Opus 5.5 $0.00676 $0.00676
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00338 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00169 $0.00169

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2a61fb376dd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excalibur 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 · 198 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 198 lines · 1,689 tokens per session scan A 2a61fb376dd0

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excalibur AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository viemccoy/excalibur (185 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,689 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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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