agents-md-thin-root

agents-md-thin-root is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping the main AGENTS.md instruction file short, focused, and linked to more detailed guidance elsewhere. AGENTS.md gives coding agents instructions for working in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the package-root AGENTS.md, its consumer template, reviewing related changes, or running the listed optimization command.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the root instructions from consuming too much shared context and ensures important emergency guidance remains available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it when editing the package-root AGENTS.md, its consumer template, reviewing related…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/agents-md-thin-root
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.

Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill agents-md-thin-root
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,209 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00050 $0.03209
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01605
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00321

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0b7a7ac98771, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-md-thin-root 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 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.

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.

src/skills/agents-md-thin-root/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agents-md-thin-root

When to use

Use when:

  • Editing AGENTS.md at the package root.
  • Editing src/agent-src/templates/AGENTS.md (consumer-shipped template).
  • Reviewing a PR that changes either file.
  • Running /optimize/agents.
  • A budget meter (scripts/measure_augment_budget.ts) flags the package-root AGENTS.md as the dominant cost.

Do NOT

  • Edit .github/copilot-instructions.md with this skill (use copilot-agents-optimization instead).
  • Edit other .md files under .augment/, src/, or agents/ with this skill.
  • Add a section to AGENTS.md without first checking whether an outboard target already exists in agents/settings/contexts/ or docs/contracts/.
  • Replace prose with a bare link [label](path) — every pointer needs a why-clause ≥ 60 chars or it does not count toward the 40 % ratio.
  • Reuse the package-root anatomy in the consumer template — caps and target paths differ.

Why Thin-Root

Augment Code injects AGENTS.md verbatim into every workspace prompt. Each kilobyte spent here permanently consumes the 49,512-char workspace-guidelines budget shared with always-rules and auto-rule registry stubs. The Thin-Root pattern keeps the entry point a navigation surface (pointers + intent) and pushes deep detail into files Augment loads on demand via load_context or that other tools fetch only when their search retrieves them. Strategic council R2 (2026-05-08, Sonnet 4.5 / Opus 4.1 / gpt-4o / o1) converged on the contract codified below as the minimum guard against AGENTS.md re-bloat.

Iron Law — Capabilities over Structure

Every entry describes what the project does or where to learn more — never where individual files live. Path lists rot every refactor and poison context; capability pointers survive structural churn. Full anatomy with rewrite recipes, monorepo guidance, and multi-tool symlink strategy: agents-md-anatomy.

The contract — hard caps

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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 · 177 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0b7a7ac98771

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agents-md-thin-root is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,209 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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