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AGENTS.md from gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff/AGENTS.md@git:20261016.bd96979

Pins git:20261016.bd96979 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
AGENTS.md file
Repository
gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff
Path
AGENTS.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261016.bd96979, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 12, 2026
Size
8,273 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Working on chaff — guide for AI coding agents

chaff deletes things on other people's machines. Every change is judged first on whether it
can destroy work a build cannot recreate; speed, tidiness and features come after. Read
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) before changing behaviour — its **safety invariants** are
enforced by tests and are not up for negotiation in a PR.

## Hard constraints

- **No runtime dependencies.** Node's standard library only. Never add anything to
  `dependencies` or `devDependencies`; there is no `npm install` step and none may be added.
- **Node >= 20, ESM, no build step.** Every file in `scripts/` must run straight from a
  checkout with `node`. No TypeScript, bundlers or transpilers.
- **macOS, Linux and Windows.** BSD and GNU `ps`/`du`/`find`/`df` disagree about flags and
  output; Windows has none of them and uses chaff's own scan layer. If you touch a shell-out
  or a path, account for all three. Use `path.sep`/`path.join`, never a hard-coded `/`.
  Acting on Windows has its own half in `applyPlan`: `removeTree` (never follows a junction
  or symlink), `moveByCopy` (cross-volume), `winCommand` (`.cmd` shims via cmd.exe with
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff/AGENTS.md@sha256:61438ca0fa4fb809

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.bd96979, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, more than one a day.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261016.bd96979 latest2026-10-16 bd96979 8,273 BA view · diff
git:20261016.1d754ba2026-10-16 1d754ba 8,137 BA view · diff
git:20261012.b710e592026-10-12 b710e59 8,137 BA view · diff
git:20261012.14b26a02026-10-12 14b26a0 6,928 BA view · diff
git:20261012.dc074bc2026-10-12 dc074bc 6,436 BA view · diff
git:20261012.cfe0d3a2026-10-12 cfe0d3a 6,101 BA view · diff
git:20261012.4906d8f2026-10-12 4906d8f 5,907 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  14 of 14 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8273 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_53kko6vouhiyf5za
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gulsahsarsilmaz/chaff/AGENTS.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/61438ca0fa4fb809028d573549b7152b3da1d4df7e77b6561340763ccf203a8e

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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