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.
npx agentmods add instructions/vouchdev/vouch/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vouchdev/vouchWhat 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 | $0.01886 | $0.01886 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00943 | $0.00943 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00377 | $0.00377 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00189 | $0.00189 |
Grade C, and why
vouch AGENTS.md scanned grade C 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 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vouchdev/vouch/main/install.sh | sh Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vouchdev/vouch/main/install.sh | sh How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agents working with vouch
Entry document for any AI coding agent reading this repository — Cursor, Codex,
OpenClaw, Aider, Continue, JetBrains AI, an LLM fetching the raw URL, anything
that isn't Claude Code. (Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md instead;
the two files complement each other.)
If your task is to work on the vouch codebase itself, read this file and
then CLAUDE.md. If your task is to use vouch from inside another
project, read README.md for install + concepts and
docs/getting-started.md for the agent-side
loop.
If you're an OpenClaw plugin loader, the plugin manifest is at the repo
root: openclaw.plugin.json. It declares vouch's
MCP wiring, the four slash commands, the trust boundary (write tools
review-gated, lifecycle ops audit-logged, remote-caller filesystem
confined), and the config schema (kb_path, agent, transport — no
secrets). No additional wiring is required to surface vouch's kb.*
surface inside an OpenClaw deployment.
What vouch is, in one paragraph
Vouch is a git-native, review-gated knowledge base for LLM agents. Agents
propose writes via an MCP server (or a JSONL pipe); a human approves each
proposal with vouch approve. Approved artifacts land as YAML claims and
markdown pages under .vouch/ — plain files that diff cleanly in PRs and
travel as a tarball bundle. The CLI is vouch; the PyPI distribution is
vouch-kb; supported Python versions are 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.
Install (1 minute)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vouchdev/vouch/main/install.sh | sh
Or, deterministically from a clone (the path you want when contributing):
git clone https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch.git
cd vouch
python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e '.[dev]'
Read in this order
- This file — entry, install, trust boundary, common tasks.
CLAUDE.md— orientation for working on the repo: architecture, conventions, ship rules, voice. Read even if you aren't Claude Code; the conventions are universal.README.md— the user-facing pitch, install, quick start, full CLI surface, MCP / JSONL method list.SPEC.md— the canonical protocol description:.vouch/layout, object model,kb.*method shapes, review-gate state machine. Authoritative when in doubt.ROADMAP.md— what's planned for 0.2 and 0.3. Don't propose features that are already scoped here.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 182 lines · 1,886 tokens per session scan C 86f14ed68b77
vouch AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vouchdev/vouch (92 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,886 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, 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
nullclaw AGENTS.md
Instructions for nullclaw/nullclaw, covering agents.md — nullclaw agent engineering protocol, 1) project snapshot (read first), 3) engineering principles (normative), 3.1 kiss and 3.2 yagni.
nullclaw CLAUDE.md
Instructions for nullclaw/nullclaw, covering claude.md, mandatory reference, build & test commands, requires exactly zig 0.16.0 (verify: zig version) and build flags.
openclaw AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for openclaw/openclaw, covering agents.md, start, repair doctrine, product doctrine and clawsweeper review policy.
openclaw copilot.instructions.md
Copilot instructions for openclaw/openclaw, covering openclaw codebase patterns, tech stack, anti-redundancy rules, source of truth locations and formatting utilities (src/infra/).
openclaw CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for openclaw/openclaw, a project described as: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞.
FERAL-AI CLAUDE.md
Instructions for FERAL-AI/FERAL-AI, covering claude.md — feral / asos, what this is, layout, commands and rather than restating it.