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AGENTS.md from coldteadotai/abide is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.
mdr add coldteadotai/abide/AGENTS.md@git:20260919.a4a85c0Pins git:20260919.a4a85c0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 13 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- AGENTS.md file
- Repository
- coldteadotai/abide
- Path
AGENTS.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260919.a4a85c0, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 8,484 bytes
- Repository stars
- 624
- 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
# Abide — Agent Instructions Hard rules for anyone (human or agent) working in this repo. Read fully before writing code. ## Hard requirements - **The hook must never break the agent.** Every hook path exits 0, bounds its own time, and writes nothing to stdout but the JSON the host expects. A hook that hangs, crashes or chatters takes the user's whole coding session with it. This outranks every other goal in this repo: a check that did not run is a missed violation, and a check that wedged the agent is a bug report. - **No secrets in this repo, ever.** The API key is read from the environment, from `.env.local` or `.env` at the repo root, or from `~/.abide/.env`. `abide login` writes it, owner-only, to `~/.abide/.env` or the repo's `.env.local`, the only two files abide may ever write a key to, and changes nothing else in them. Never accept it as a flag — a flag lands in shell history and in CI logs — and never log it. - **Verify before claiming done**: tests green, `pnpm build` + typecheck clean, and the end-to-end path exercised against live Jev with latency measured. A rule checker that has never checked a real diff is not done. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coldteadotai/abide/AGENTS.md@sha256:4dd804a73bc63fc6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a4a85c0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_q3lbbioglhcqybrn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Sep 18, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, more than one a day. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260919.a4a85c0 latest | 2026-09-19 | a4a85c0 | 8,484 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260918.17a3a80 | 2026-09-18 | 17a3a80 | 8,415 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260918.19d23e9 | 2026-09-18 | 19d23e9 | 8,274 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read from the environment, from `.env)
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8484 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 base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for AGENTS.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
coldteadotai/abide · 624 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q3lbbioglhcqybrn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coldteadotai/abide/AGENTS.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4dd804a73bc63fc6f4f383a3412969ac1e3b2e6e782a11ee3dc6af6b6a193ce3
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