What is IronMesh AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for IronMesh, a local networking system that lets devices or agents communicate with end-to-end encryption without relying on cloud services.

Use it when orienting yourself in the Python daemon, TypeScript client, dashboard, routing, trust, rate-limiting, or monitoring code.

It explains the project layout, required rules, and development workflow so changes do not violate security or communication assumptions.

How WizTheAgent/IronMesh configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to WizTheAgent/IronMesh. 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/WizTheAgent/IronMesh/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WizTheAgent/IronMesh

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md

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Per session 1,853 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,853 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 original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01853	$0.01853
Opus 5.5	$0.00741	$0.00741
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00371	$0.00371
Haiku 4.5	$0.00185	$0.00185

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d496d5d22c3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

IronMesh 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 · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent guide for this repository

This file tells AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Zed, Codex, and similar) how to operate productively in the IronMesh codebase. It is the emerging community convention for repo-level AI guidance. Human contributors should read CONTRIBUTING.md.

What IronMesh is

A local-first, end-to-end encrypted agent-to-agent mesh protocol. Python daemon + TypeScript client + 25 MCP tools. No cloud dependencies. See README.md for the product-level summary.

Quick repo orientation

ironmesh/                  # main Python package
├── bridge.py              # daemon core — server + lifecycle (composes the mixins below)
├── handshake.py           # client handshake + outbound connect + rekey
├── routing.py             # inbound dispatch + outbound send pipeline
├── trust_ops.py           # revocation + pending-trust gate + TOFU check
├── ratelimit.py           # auth-failure lockout + bandwidth throttle
├── metrics.py             # counters + Prometheus/JSON exposition
├── dashboard.py           # GUI HTTP/WebSocket server + operator commands
├── dashboard_html.py      # embedded dashboard page (GUI_HTML)
├── trust.py               # TOFU pin store + capability-set binding
├── audit.py               # HMAC-chained audit log + cross-process flock
├── mesh.py                # distance-vector router + DedupCache
├── crypto.py              # thin wrapper over PyNaCl primitives
├── protocol.py            # binary frame + JSON-dispatch decoders
├── capabilities.py        # local + remote capability registries
├── cli.py                 # `ironmesh` command surface
├── telemetry.py           # OpenTelemetry shim (lazy, no-op on vanilla)
└── keys.py                # Ed25519 identity: generate / save / load

ironmesh_mcp/              # MCP server (Claude Desktop / Claude Code)
clients/ts/                # TypeScript client — `@wiztheagent/ironmesh-client`
tests/                     # pytest suite — unit + property + concurrency
docs/                      # public-facing docs (shipped with the release)
scripts/                   # release-smoke, leak-scan, stress harness
examples/                  # runnable walkthroughs (cap_binding_workflow etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 1,853 tokens per session scan A d496d5d22c3c

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IronMesh AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository WizTheAgent/IronMesh (26 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,853 tokens to every session, about $0.0074 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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