Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to vietanhdev/bulwark. 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/vietanhdev/bulwark/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vietanhdev/bulwarkWrote 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/vietanhdev/bulwark/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vietanhdev/bulwark/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vietanhdev/bulwark/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/vietanhdev/bulwark/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vietanhdev/bulwark/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 | $0.13785 | $0.13785 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.05514 | $0.05514 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.02757 | $0.02757 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01379 | $0.01379 |
Grade B, and why
bulwark AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 2 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 23d 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
Two different mechanisms, deliberately: the GUI uses `pkexec` with `polkit/com.bulwark.policy` (`auth_admin`, one prompt per privileged scan — `auth_admin_keep` was dropped because it caches authorization for the *generi Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
**Secret-pack validation (new, and it found three real bugs).** The pack had 262 vendored regexes and no test that any individual rule still *worked* — `every_bundled_rule_compiles` proves a pattern parses, not that it c How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file provides guidance to AI coding agents working with code in this repository.
What this is
Bulwark scans a Linux host for security misconfigurations and intrusion indicators using a native Rust rule engine over declarative YAML rules, and explains findings in plain language with a suggested fix. Design rationale, architecture, and alternatives-considered all live in docs/guide/architecture.md — read that before making an architectural change, not just this file. Background research grounding the rule checklist (Lynis, MITRE ATT&CK, HackTricks) is in research/2026-07-11-linux-security-checklist/report.md.
Build & development commands
# Core + CLI
cargo build --workspace
cargo test --workspace
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --all # cargo fmt --all -- --check in CI
cargo run -p bulwarkctl -- scan
cargo run -p bulwarkctl -- rules validate rules/
cargo test -p bulwarkctl --test e2e -- --ignored --test-threads=1 # needs Docker; see below
# GUI (from apps/bulwark-app/)
npm install
cargo tauri dev # hot reload for frontend; Rust/tauri.conf.json changes need a restart
cargo tauri build # produces .deb, .rpm, .AppImage in target/release/bundle/
npx tsc --noEmit # type-check the frontend
npm run lint # eslint
npm run format:check # prettier --check
# Docs site (from docs/)
npm install
npm run dev # local preview
npm run build # static build to docs/.vitepress/dist
# Packaging (from workspace root, after a release build)
cargo build --release -p bulwarkctl
cargo deb -p bulwarkctl --no-build # requires `cargo install cargo-deb`
cargo generate-rpm -p crates/bulwarkctl # requires `cargo install cargo-generate-rpm`
GitHub Actions jobs run only when github.triggering_actor == 'vietanhdev', including manual builds, publishing and reruns. Dependabot and other accounts skip all jobs; the owner can select Re-run all jobs to validate a bot/contributor PR. CI also supports workflow_dispatch for an owner-triggered run on a selected branch.
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.
- 23d ago Changed · +4 lines · +148 tokens per session 50f9a3c43660
- 1mo ago First seen · 239 lines · 13,637 tokens per session scan B d05f386cb3c8
bulwark AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vietanhdev/bulwark (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13,785 tokens to every session, about $0.0551 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
vscode model-prompts.instructions.md
Model-specific prompt authoring and registry guidelines.