Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to xmanatee/pub. 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/xmanatee/pub/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xmanatee/pubWrote 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/xmanatee/pub/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/xmanatee/pub/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/xmanatee/pub/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/xmanatee/pub/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/xmanatee/pub/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 | $0.00416 | $0.00416 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00166 | $0.00166 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00083 | $0.00083 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
pub 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Pub
Pub is a full-stack TypeScript system for adaptive interfaces powered by AI agents. The repo spans a web app, CLI, relay infrastructure, and an embedded live app experience.
Before broad work, read parent AGENTS.md files up to the mono root; nearest scoped instructions apply last.
Operating Principles
- Treat the implementation, configuration schema, package scripts, and focused docs as the source of truth for exact commands, protocols, limits, and wiring.
- Keep agent-facing guidance high level here; do not duplicate details that can be read directly from code, generated config, or narrower documentation.
- Preserve user-owned workspaces and user-authored content. Initialization and upgrades must not silently overwrite local edits.
- Keep live chat, canvas, tunnel, and bridge responsibilities separated. Do not route around the owning layer when changing delivery behavior.
- Keep generated, vendored, and primitive UI surfaces read-only unless their owning workflow explicitly regenerates or updates them.
- Follow existing routing, state, styling, and data-ownership patterns before introducing new abstractions.
- Keep product privacy and cleanup invariants intact when adding creation, sharing, connection, or deletion behavior.
- When public CLI or agent-facing behavior changes, keep the shipped runtime guidance and metadata in sync with the implementation.
Architecture Guidelines
- Web, CLI, relay, and live-app code should remain loosely coupled through their existing boundaries.
- The CLI owns local setup, validation, daemon lifecycle, bridge coordination, and tunnel startup. Keep those concerns explicit and observable.
- The embedded live app is a starting point for user work. Once materialized in a workspace, treat it as user-owned source.
- Feature work should be additive where possible and should keep feature-local concerns inside the feature boundary.
- Prefer small, verifiable changes that preserve established conventions over broad refactors.
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 · 44 lines · 416 tokens per session scan A 1aadea411959
pub AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository xmanatee/pub (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 416 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.
pub AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pub AGENTS.mdxmanatee/pub | Instructions file | 2 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 416 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,649 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode model-prompts.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 2,022 | GitHub Copilot |