Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to wanghao9610/STAR. 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/wanghao9610/STAR/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanghao9610/STARWrote 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/wanghao9610/star/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/wanghao9610/star/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/wanghao9610/star/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/wanghao9610/star/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/wanghao9610/star/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 | $0.02064 | $0.02064 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00826 | $0.00826 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00413 | $0.00413 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00206 | $0.00206 |
Grade A, and why
STAR 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions
Project constraints for completing the user's task with proportionate care.
1. Think Before Coding
Resolve routine details. Surface consequential uncertainty.
- Use project conventions for routine, reversible details and continue; state assumptions that affect the result.
- Ask when the answer would change the research objective, acceptance criteria, key inputs, cost, or authority. While waiting, continue independent work already authorized.
- If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.
2. Simplicity First
Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.
- Nothing beyond what was asked: no extra features, no abstractions for single-use code, no "flexibility" or configurability nobody requested, no error handling for impossible scenarios.
- If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it.
3. Surgical Changes
Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.
- Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting; don't refactor what isn't broken.
- Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently.
- Remove imports, variables, and functions that YOUR changes left unused.
- Pre-existing dead code: mention it, don't delete it unless asked.
The test: Every changed line should trace directly to the user's request.
4. Goal-Driven Execution
Define completion and carry the authorized task through verification.
- Identify the requested outcome and the evidence that establishes it. Use a regression test for a behavioral bug when practical; a small documentation or formatting change may need only a direct inspection.
- For substantial multi-step work, state the actions and completion check. Existing explicit authorization remains valid for its stated scope; do not ask for the same approval again. A request to inspect, explain, or review without changes ends with that deliverable and never starts a writing successor.
5. Research Workflow
This project uses the STAR research workflow. Its records are files, not chat history.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · -2 tokens per session 284f8a276f0a
- 1mo ago Changed · +24 tokens per session c30f506016b8
- 1mo ago Changed · +34 tokens per session eab0c0e630e3
- 1mo ago Changed · -64 tokens per session 8e941453722c
- 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +321 tokens per session 562468fea807
- 2mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 1,751 tokens per session scan A f3e77de3123e
STAR AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wanghao9610/STAR (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,064 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 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.
STAR AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STAR AGENTS.mdwanghao9610/STAR | Instructions file | 54 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 2,064 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |