mini-spec AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for a project that uses mini-spec, a method for describing and checking software changes before implementation. They explain how Cursor and Claude should load the rules, use the mini-spec command-line tool and handle related tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on the zot/mini-spec repository, especially for mini-spec checks, agent tasks, code simplification and isolated design work.
Why use it?
They give coding agents one shared way to plan and validate work across different editors. They also document the required tool version and the project’s contribution conventions.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/zot/mini-spec/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zot/mini-spec

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 318 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 318 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00318 $0.00318
Opus 5 $0.00159 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00064 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9592bd108966, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mini-spec 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 2d 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

Agent instructions (Cursor)

Mini-spec

This repo uses the mini-spec methodology. Cursor loads it via .cursor/rules/mini-spec.mdc (alwaysApply: true) — same workflow as the Claude Code skill in .claude/skills/mini-spec/SKILL.md.

Install minispec: add the release binary to your PATH, or set environment variable MINISPEC to its full path. Run minispec check-version and align with the version in .claude/skills/mini-spec/README.md.

Claude parity:

Claude Cursor
Skill auto-invoked Rule mini-spec.mdc always applies
TaskCreate / TaskUpdate Cursor todos (see rule)
~/.claude/bin/minispec minispec on PATH or MINISPEC
code-simplifier plugin In-session simplification pass (rule)
spec-agent subagent Use Agent mode + optional rule below

For isolated design-heavy work (equivalent to invoking spec-agent), enable the rule mini-spec — spec agent from the rule picker or mention it in chat.

Other

Release and contribution notes for maintainers: CLAUDE.md.

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. 2d ago First seen · 24 lines · 318 tokens per session scan A 9592bd108966

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mini-spec AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zot/mini-spec (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 318 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 per session on Opus 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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