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AGENTS.md

dev_harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from yuvhaim-gif/dev_harness. It costs 392 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A task and safety specification for an experimental system that confines autonomous AI agents to approved repository boundaries. It defines the files, tests, contracts, and limits for each requested change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide tasks such as adding a payments endpoint or improving database queries, including which files may change, which tests must pass, and how changes are labelled.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of an agent editing unintended files or changing an agreed interface, while allowing repairs within explicitly defined limits.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is yuvhaim-gif/dev_harness's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on dev_harness 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 dev_harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 392 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 392 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

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00392 $0.00392
Opus 5.5 $0.00157 $0.00157
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8f76ea1077ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev_harness 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 · 45 lines

What it actually says

schema_version: 1

tasks: add_payments_endpoint: description: > Add a POST /payments endpoint to the billing service. Accepts amount, currency, and user_id. Returns a transaction_id. mutation_mode: evolve # evolve = may edit spec_docs, tests, targets spec_docs: # OKF concept bundle (each has a non-empty 'type') - harness/example/docs/IMPLEMENTATION.md - harness/example/docs/API_SCHEMA.md - harness/example/docs/index.md - harness/example/docs/log.md contracts: # stable, hash-pinned (subset of spec_docs) - harness/example/docs/API_SCHEMA.md tests: - harness/example/tests/test_payments.py contract_tests: # tests that pin the contract (subset of tests) - harness/example/tests/test_payments.py targets: - harness/example/src/billing/routes.py - harness/example/src/billing/models.py locked_files: [] # AGENTS.md is ALWAYS locked implicitly commit_prefix: "feat" max_autorepair_attempts: 3 pr_labels: ["feature", "billing"]

optimise_query_layer: description: > Optimise the database query layer in harness/example/src/db/queries.py. Replace N+1 patterns with batch fetches. No API contract changes. mutation_mode: isolated # isolated = ONLY files in targets may change spec_docs: - harness/example/docs/IMPLEMENTATION.md tests: - harness/example/tests/test_queries.py targets: - harness/example/src/db/queries.py locked_files: - harness/example/docs/IMPLEMENTATION.md - harness/example/tests/test_queries.py commit_prefix: "perf" max_autorepair_attempts: 3 pr_labels: ["performance"]

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 First seen · 45 lines · 392 tokens per session scan A 8f76ea1077ad

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dev_harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yuvhaim-gif/dev_harness (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 392 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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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