Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows. 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/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/develop/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflowsWrote 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/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/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/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows/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 | $0.00880 | $0.00880 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00352 | $0.00352 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00176 | $0.00176 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00088 | $0.00088 |
Grade A, and why
github-agentic-workflows 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Instructions — aw-author Plugin
This file is read by all agentic runtimes (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, and gh-aw workflows) when operating in this repository.
What This Repository Is
The aw-author plugin (v1.3.0) for Claude Code. It provides skills, commands, and reference materials for authoring GitHub Agentic Workflow (gh-aw) markdown files, plus an autonomous daily pipeline that keeps the reference materials current.
Repository: zircote/github-agentic-workflows
Owner: Robert Allen (zircote)
Key Directories
skills/aw-author/references/— 9 canonical reference files (frontmatter schema, safe-outputs, tools, gotchas, patterns, examples, validation, body guide, URLs). These are the primary deliverable of this project.skills/aw-daily/— Autonomous daily pipeline skill that researches the gh-aw ecosystem, identifies gaps in reference files, and creates PRs to fix them.skills/gh-aw-report/— Intelligence reporting skill with knowledge base and search queries..github/workflows/— Two gh-aw workflows:daily-intelligence.md(daily research + updates) andweekly-develop-merge.md(weekly develop→main merge).outputs/gh-aw-reports/— Dated intelligence reports.
Branching
main— stabledevelop— receives daily automated PRs from the intelligence pipeline- Feature branches:
daily-intelligence-YYYY-MM-DD(ephemeral, deleted after merge)
Rules for All Agents
- Never edit
.lock.ymlfiles. They are compiled output fromgh aw compile. - Reference files are large (200–2100 lines). Use section headers as anchors for edits, not line numbers.
- Knowledge base (
skills/gh-aw-report/knowledge-base.md) is append-only. Never delete entries. Mark outdated facts with[SUPERSEDED by YYYY-MM-DD]. - All
add-commentsafe-outputs must includediscussions: false. This is a known gh-aw gotcha that causes HTTP 422 errors. - The
plugins:frontmatter field is deprecated. Usedependencies:instead. Rungh aw fix --writeto migrate. - Discussion posts go to the "Project News" category (ID:
DIC_kwDORSXBr84C61Lr). - The daily pipeline is idempotent. It checks for existing Discussions, PRs, and issues before creating new ones. Re-running on the same day is safe.
- When editing reference files, verify the change compiles. Run
gh aw compileafter modifying any.mdfile in.github/workflows/. - PRs are created as drafts. Open with
--draftordraft: truein safe-outputs, then mark ready withgh pr readyafter all changes are pushed and verified.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 880 tokens per session scan A fa92c7b96ca9
github-agentic-workflows AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/github-agentic-workflows (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 880 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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