agents-md-editor

agents-md-editor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from perhapsspy/project-legibility. It costs 85 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, editing, or reviewing repository instruction files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and editor rules. These files give coding agents instructions that they read automatically when starting work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide what belongs in an always-read instruction file and to improve rules about commands, safety, repository workflow, and where agents should look first.
Why use it?
It keeps lasting agent rules short and useful, while moving commands, setup notes, reference material, and temporary task details to better places.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/perhapsspy/project-legibility/agents-md-editor
Any agent
npx skills add perhapsspy/project-legibility --skill agents-md-editor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perhapsspy/project-legibility

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 754 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00085 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00075

Measured 4d ago against content hash feee3dadecac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-md-editor 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 4d 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.

plugins/project-legibility/skills/agents-md-editor/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agents MD Editor

Purpose

Keep always-read instruction files small, durable, and action-oriented.

Treat these files as startup instructions for future agent sessions, not as session notes, decision logs, onboarding documents, or general reference documents.

Core Rule

Keep only content that should change agent behavior in future sessions.

Good content usually affects one of these:

  • command choice
  • safety boundaries
  • repository-specific workflow
  • where to look before acting
  • project-specific conventions not obvious from code or tooling

Classification

For each candidate line, choose one destination:

  • Keep: durable behavior rule, safety boundary, workflow rule, or short routing instruction.
  • Commands: recurring install, build, test, generation, or validation command agents need during normal work.
  • Onboarding: first-run setup, local bootstrap, or human-only environment preparation.
  • Reference: architecture, naming, ownership, repo/service boundaries, or durable facts better explained elsewhere.
  • Handoff: current state, temporary migration status, next step, open work, blockers, or session-specific context.
  • Enforcement: scripts, hooks, CI, tests, linters, type checks, generated checks, or policy already enforced mechanically.
  • Remove: duplicate, stale, vague, historical, rejected alternative, decision trace, or meta-commentary.

Use the repository's existing surfaces for non-AGENTS content. Do not invent a new documentation structure unless the user asks.

Editing Rules

  • Prefer positive instructions.
  • Use negative instructions only for durable safety, security, ownership, or destructive-change boundaries.
  • Do not preserve temporary state just because it mattered during the edit.
  • Do not record rejected alternatives, reversals, or "we decided not to" history in always-read instruction files.
  • Do not restate what tooling already enforces unless agent behavior before tooling runs would otherwise be unsafe.
  • Replace detailed reference facts with a short pointer when agents only need to know where to look.
  • Keep recurring commands when they are needed for normal agent work.
  • Move first-run setup and local environment bootstrap instructions to onboarding or setup surfaces.
  • Keep the file short enough to scan before acting.
  • Avoid vague rules such as "write clean code", "follow best practices", or "be careful".

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A feee3dadecac

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agents-md-editor is a skill published in the GitHub repository perhapsspy/project-legibility (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.