openfda: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

openfda AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from ythalorossy/openfda. It costs 4,562 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for an MCP server that queries drug information from the OpenFDA API, a US government database service. They describe the repository, required API key, and development commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding work on the OpenFDA server, including builds, development, Vitest tests, ESLint checks, TypeScript checks, and repository code style.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the project-specific rules and commands needed to build, test, lint, and type-check the code consistently.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is ythalorossy/openfda's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on openfda itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything openfda configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ythalorossy/openfda. 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/ythalorossy/openfda/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ythalorossy/openfda

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 4,562 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

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.04562 $0.04562
Opus 5.5 $0.01825 $0.01825
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00912 $0.00912
Haiku 4.5 $0.00456 $0.00456

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 260cc2d038a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openfda 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.

AGENTS.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance for agentic coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot) working in this repository.

Project Overview

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for querying drug information from the OpenFDA API. The server communicates over stdio and requires an OPENFDA_API_KEY environment variable.

Build / Lint / Test Commands

# Build
npm run build        # Compile TypeScript to dist/ (Vite build)
npm run build:cli    # Build + add shebang for CLI executable

# Development
npm run dev          # Start development server with Vite

# Testing
npm run test         # Run Vitest tests (watch mode)
npm run test:ci      # Run tests in CI mode (no watch)

# Single test file
npx vitest run tests/ApiHandler.test.ts

# Quality checks
npm run lint         # ESLint with Prettier
npm run lint -- --fix  # Auto-fix linting issues
npm run typecheck    # TypeScript type checking (tsc --noEmit)

Code Style Guidelines

File Headers

Every .ts file must include the MIT license header:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2025 Ythalo Saldanha
 * Licensed under the MIT License
 */

The one exception is tests/docs-currency.test.ts and any other file under tests/, per repo convention — the header rule applies to src/.

Imports

  • Use ES modules with .js extension in imports (required for bundled output)
  • Use import { thing } from './module.js' not import * as thing
  • Group imports: external packages first, then internal modules

Formatting

  • Run npm run lint -- --fix before committing (Prettier + ESLint)
  • Windows users: Ensure line endings are LF, not CRLF, before committing
  • The ESLint config ignores tests/, dist/, bin/, and node_modules/

TypeScript

  • Strict mode is enabled ("strict": true in tsconfig.json)
  • Avoid any unless absolutely necessary (ESLint rule is off but discouraged)
  • Use explicit return types on public functions
  • Use interfaces for API response shapes (see src/types.ts)

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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.

  1. 1mo ago Changed · +38 lines · +3,244 tokens per session 260cc2d038a3
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 173 lines · 1,318 tokens per session scan A 6bd8f13d376a

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openfda AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ythalorossy/openfda (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,562 tokens to every session, about $0.0182 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.

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