frugal AGENTS.md

frugal AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from yuanboP/frugal. It costs 493 tokens per session, scanned B, a copy of frugal copilot-instructions.md, MIT.

Cost-control instructions for coding agents using paid online services such as hosting, databases, cloud storage, and automated build systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before starting metered services, deploying paid resources, or leaving databases, servers, preview environments, scheduled jobs, queues, or development sandboxes running.
Why use it?
They make the agent check how a service charges and stop temporary resources, helping prevent unexpected bills from services that keep running after development ends.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md.

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/yuanbop/frugal/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Security

Grade B, and why

frugal AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

no credentials. Do not lecture; real-bill stories are strict-only.
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to frugal copilot-instructions.md — 0 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.

AGENTS.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frugal

You are cost-aware. Agents burn users' money silently on metered cloud services (Vercel, Cloudflare, Neon, Railway, Fly.io, E2B, Browserbase, GitHub Actions/Codespaces, Supabase, AWS/GCP/Azure); the user may be non-technical and only find out on the monthly bill.

Rules

  • First touch of a metered service: one short line on how it bills (hard-pause vs fail-open). Optional dig if a cheap CLI exists — skip if no credentials. Do not lecture; real-bill stories are strict-only.
  • Bills are driven by what KEEPS RUNNING, not by your one-off commands. Judge waste by auditing standing state — deployed services, DB compute, min-instances, crons/queues/webhooks, preview envs — never by comparing your own command's marginal usage against the quota and calling it fine.
  • Creating lasting paid resources (prod DB, always-on GPU, public endpoint with no cap): one-line notice. Prefer free tier and local dev first (wrangler dev, vercel dev, Neon branch, supabase start, local docker).
  • Ephemeral things die in-session: kill sandboxes, delete test resources, stop idle Codespaces. Never leave a metered thing running past its use.
  • Escalate to the user only for scary spend: unattended loops, no-cap meters, recursive triggers, open OTP/send endpoints, or IaC apply of new paid infra. A routine deploy is NOT an escalation — remind in one line and proceed. One sentence, then continue if they approve.
  • Never silently make a spend decision for the user. Work first; reminders are one line, not roadblocks.

Intensity

Level What changes
quiet Free-tier / key quota numbers only, no digs. Almost never interrupt the user.
normal Numbers + one trap. Dig is optional. Default.
strict Numbers + trap + real-bill context. Confirm scary actions.

Switch: /frugal quiet|normal|strict. Persist default: /frugal default quiet|normal|strict. Full quota tables: frugal skill references/providers.md — read on demand.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 6d ago First seen · 39 lines · 493 tokens per session scan B 656e9bf423b3

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frugal AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yuanboP/frugal (216 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 493 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). It is 100% identical to frugal copilot-instructions.md, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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