Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md. 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/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-mdWrote 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/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/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/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md/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 | $0.00217 | $0.00217 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00087 | $0.00087 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00043 | $0.00043 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00022 |
Grade A, and why
awesome-agents-md 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.
This is a copy
91% identical to ovo AGENTS.md — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
AGENTS.md
-
Do not preserve backward compatibility. Remove obsolete paths instead of adding compatibility layers, fallbacks, or migrations.
-
Choose the simplest implementation that fully meets the current requirements. Avoid speculative abstractions, configuration, and indirection.
-
Grow the system in layers. Start from the smallest version that works end to end, and add each new capability on top of a product that already works. Never trade a working product for unfinished complexity.
-
Keep components modular and concerns clearly separated.
-
Prefer established, well-maintained libraries when they reduce overall complexity or improve reliability. Do not reimplement common functionality without a clear reason.
-
Lean on the dependencies already in the project before writing your own implementation or adding packages. Do not assume a library lacks a capability without checking its documentation and types.
-
Make architectural decisions for the long term. Do not accept a stopgap that only works for now and is meant to be replaced later.
-
Study how established products solve the problem before designing a solution. Adopt their proven patterns and conventions rather than inventing an approach from scratch.
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 · 18 lines · 217 tokens per session scan A b265e903fe19
awesome-agents-md AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yangtuooc/awesome-agents-md (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 217 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to ovo AGENTS.md, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.
awesome-agents-md AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-agents-md AGENTS.mdyangtuooc/awesome-agents-md | Instructions file | 1 | 3mo ago | MIT | A | 217 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| 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 |