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/xiaolai/eou-foundry/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/eou-foundryWhat 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 | $0.01737 | $0.01737 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00869 | $0.00869 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00347 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00174 | $0.00174 |
Grade A, and why
eou-foundry 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 3d 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 — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Project Instructions
eou-foundry
Prerequisites
- Python 3.9+ — required by
scripts/validate_foundry.pyand the helper modules underscripts/. - PyYAML (
pip install pyyaml) — the validator reads/writes YAML. - No other runtime dependencies for validation. CI may additionally need
ghfor ECP submission flows; local development does not. EOU_FOUNDRY_PLUGIN_PATHenvironment variable should point at the plugin checkout when runningvalidate_foundry.pyoutside an installed-plugin context (the validator falls back toinstalled_plugins.jsonand then to its own parent directory).
Guidelines
Vocabulary authority chain
schemas/ is the ground truth for all enum values. When vocabulary changes:
- Update the schema file (
schemas/eou.schema.ymlorschemas/ecp.schema.yml) - Update
scripts/validate_foundry.py(VALID_FUNCTIONS, VALID_AUTOMATION, VALID_AUTHORITY, VALID_RISK, VALID_STAGE) - Update every skill in
skills/that references the changed enum - Update every matching codex skill in
codex/skills/ - Update every rule in
rules/that documents the enum - Update any meta-EOU in
engine/meta-eous/that uses the value
Never update vocabulary in only one place — all six layers must stay in sync.
Testing changes
After editing any script, run the validator against the fixture foundry:
python3 scripts/validate_foundry.py tests/fixture-foundry
After editing any SKILL.md, verify the output path it declares matches the path the consuming skill (eou-promote, eou-diagnose, eou-refactor, foundry-audit, audit-candidate-eou-set) reads from.
Skill selection guide
| Goal | Use |
|---|---|
| Synthesize Stage 0 inputs from references (literacy bridge + per-app constitutional layer) | $generate-captured-workflow-from-references |
| Convert workflow → candidate EOUs | $generate-eou-candidates (consults captured_workflow when present per Rule 96) |
| Audit a candidate set for readiness | $audit-candidate-eou-set (runs Set Value Coverage Test when captured_workflow present) |
| Convert approved candidate → spec | $eou-specify |
| Audit a spec for V2 compliance | $eou-audit (runs Value Operationalization Test when captured_workflow present per Rule 96) |
| Audit agentic-judgment invocations (F14–F17 + counterfactual-swap) | $audit-judgment (fourth audit layer per D4.1; enforces Rule 97 on EOUs with judgment_authorized:true) |
| Audit the whole foundry | $foundry-audit |
| Validate schemas and registry | $eou-validate |
| Diagnose a failure | $eou-diagnose |
| Generate refactor options | $eou-refactor |
| Propose a structural change | $ecp-propose |
| Promote or retire a spec | $eou-promote |
| Convert incidents → regression cases | $generate-regression-cases |
| Scaffold a new app | $eou-foundry-init (Codex-only) |
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 114 lines · 1,737 tokens per session scan A a6cf9edd34be
eou-foundry AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/eou-foundry (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 1,737 tokens to every session, about $0.0087 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.
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