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 skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-developmentWrote 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/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/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/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Anti-Refusal · line 46 Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
- high Anti-Refusal · line 140 Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
- high Prompt Injection · line 114 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 74 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 151 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 | $0.00047 | $0.05182 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.02073 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.01036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00518 |
Grade A, and why
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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- agents-md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agents MD
Contract
| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | User asks to set up a repo for agents, add AGENTS.md, audit CLAUDE.md, make a repo agent-friendly, score agent instructions, prune long/generic/stale instructions, or produce a lean pointer-only AGENTS.md |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md (or a symlink to AGENTS.md when a target tool reads solely CLAUDE.md), CLAUDE.local.md, .claude/settings.json, .cursor/rules/*.mdc, Cursor hooks.json, and supporting instruction files after user confirmation; rollback is restoring the pre-edit snapshot. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Local write to agent instruction files in the repo; no remote, credential, paid, published, deployed, or VCS mutation |
| Done | Repo has working, scored, non-contradictory AGENTS.md for every target tool, plus a CLAUDE.md only when a target tool reads solely CLAUDE.md; every surviving line passes the three-check admission gate (non-discoverable, operationally significant, actionable); lean variants stay under 100 lines with pointer-only sections |
Inputs
- Required: the repository root path to audit or set up.
- Optional: target tool set (defaults to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor); audit mode (quick or full, defaults to quick); target grade (defaults to 10/12 for quick, A for full); target file path (defaults to root AGENTS.md, then CLAUDE.md if AGENTS.md absent); scope limit (root-only versus hierarchical); owner name for the lean commit attribution line.
Procedure
AGENTS.md files are execution contracts, not knowledge bases. Every line must help an agent execute correctly with minimal context. AGENTS.md is temporary guidance, not permanent configuration: when a recurring issue has a fixable root cause in code or tooling (a lint rule, test, script, or structural change), prefer that fix and keep only the minimum instruction needed until the root cause is solved.
- Discover files and survey discoverability. Find every agent instruction file in the repo:
Also checkfind . \( -name "AGENTS.md" -o -name "CLAUDE.md" -o -name "CLAUDE.local.md" \) 2>/dev/null | sort~/.claude/CLAUDE.md(applies to every session). For monorepos, include workspace-level files. Audit each level independently: root holds universal rules, child files hold directory-specific rules. Then survey source files to learn what is already discoverable: README, PROJECT.md, cursor rules (.cursor/rules/or.cursorrules), Copilot instructions (.github/copilot-instructions.md), GEMINI.md, CI/workflow files, package manager config, CONTRIBUTING.md, anddocs/. Record what an agent can infer from these alone; anything discoverable need not be restated.- Done when: every instruction file is listed and the discoverability survey records what an agent can learn without AGENTS.md.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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 Changed · -18 tokens per session 5951f3dd872e
- 1mo ago First seen · 171 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A a497c4d5115b
agents-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (53 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 5,182 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
Other skills, from other repositories
audit-project
Run an iterative multi-agent code audit until critical and high findings are resolved. Use when the user says "audit my code", "find all the bugs", "deep code audit", "iterative review", or "review until clean".
duet
Use when the user invokes /duet, says "pair with me", or faces aesthetic, architectural, or irreversible decisions.
goal-prompt-drafting
Use when asked to draft copy-ready /goal objectives for long-running agents; returns one normalized one-line objective with measurable end state, grounded proof, easy-out invariants, a stop clause, and a Missing list. Not for source or remote-system changes.
handoff-prompt
Use when the user asks for a handoff, delegation, or clipboard-ready prompt for another agent: a standalone path-free prompt copied to the clipboard, confirmed by title. Not for session-snapshot briefs — use handoff; never remote, credential, publish, deploy, or irreversible.
publish-branch
Use when asked to publish the checked-out branch: commit and push it on whatever branch it is, the default branch included. Not for creating branches, PRs, force pushes, or pushing any other branch; when the request excludes the default branch, use commit-push-current.
drill
Use when a concept needs practising rather than explaining: run a scaffolded exercise from worked example to independent problem, quiz the learner, run spaced recall over what they cleared, or probe for the gaps blocking what they want next. For explanation, use explain-concept; for an end-to-end build, use capstone.