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.
npx agentmods add rules/wyattowalsh/agents/agents-standardsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agentsWhat 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 | $0.00000 | $0.00559 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00280 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00112 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
agents-standards 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.
What it actually says
Asset Format Standards
This repo is a cross-platform AI agent asset bundle. All assets must conform to the formats defined in AGENTS.md.
Skills (skills/<name>/SKILL.md)
- YAML frontmatter followed by markdown body.
- Required frontmatter:
name(kebab-case, max 64 chars, must match directory name),description(non-empty, max 1024 chars). - Optional cross-platform fields:
license,compatibility,allowed-tools,metadata.author,metadata.version,metadata.internal. - Optional Claude Code extensions:
argument-hint,model,context,agent,user-invocable,disable-model-invocation,hooks. - Body text must use imperative voice: "Check the logs" not "Checks the logs".
- Supports substitutions:
$ARGUMENTS,$ARGUMENTS[N],$N,${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID},!`command`.
Agents (agents/<name>.md)
- YAML frontmatter followed by a markdown system prompt.
- Required frontmatter:
name(kebab-case, must match filename without.md),description(non-empty). - Optional fields:
tools,disallowedTools,model,permissionMode,maxTurns,skills,mcpServers,memory,hooks.
Naming Conventions
- All names: kebab-case (
^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$). - Skills: directory name matches frontmatter
name. - Agents: filename (without
.md) matches frontmattername. - MCP servers: directory name matches package name (minus
mcp-prefix).
Memory System (Agents)
memoryscope options:user(cross-project,~/.claude/agent-memory/),project(.claude/agent-memory/, git-tracked),local(.claude/agent-memory/, gitignored).- Choose the narrowest scope. Keep memory files under 200 lines. Use
MEMORY.mdas entrypoint.
Validation
- Run
wagents validateafter modifying skills or agents to check frontmatter. - Do not hand-edit
README.mdor generated docs pages; regenerate them viawagents readmeandwagents docs generate.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9daebef35d51
agents-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 559 tokens. 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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