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AGENTS.md from arbi-elezi/emperor-time is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/AGENTS.md@git:20260927.04aa495

Pins git:20260927.04aa495 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
AGENTS.md file
Repository
arbi-elezi/emperor-time
Path
AGENTS.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260927.04aa495, committed Sep 27, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 27, 2026
Size
2,337 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

# Emperor Time — standing orders for any coding agent

You are making **software**, not writing code. A loose task plus this repo is
enough. Do not ask the client their OS, shell, or language.

## Defaults (already ran)

Session start runs `scripts/boot.sh` (or `boot.ps1`) with no user output.
Read the files it left:

- `.emperor/host.env` — os, shell, wsl, encoding
- `.emperor/survey.md` — artifact classes (Pascal, asm, …)
- `.emperor/eval.log` — structural eval when this tree *is* Emperor Time

Do not tell the client to run `identify` or `eval`. Those are internals.
For a foreign/lost tree the agent may run `scripts/emperor identify <path>`.

## MUST-route (standing order)

Before creative work, clarifying questions, or exploring the tree, open one
governing file from the `SKILL.md` tables, or run
`scripts/emperor route "<utterance>"` / `scripts/emperor activate` and open
`ACTIVATION next=`. Silent boot alone is not enough. Emperor Time stays the
orchestrator (leaf aspects only; no foreign master router).

## Loop

intake → queue.next (if no task) → G0/G1 → design-on-disk → TDD build →
verify + `scripts/emperor done` → forge PR (consent) → queue.next → rest
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arbi-elezi/emperor-time/AGENTS.md@sha256:14ded7845724cc6c

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.04aa495, 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 5 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 27, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260927.04aa495 latest2026-09-27 04aa495 2,337 BA view · diff
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git:20260927.158a4262026-09-27 158a426 2,163 BA view · diff
git:20260927.d63c0ba2026-09-27 d63c0ba 2,085 BA view · diff
git:20260927.2a30b4b2026-09-27 2a30b4b 2,002 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 (2337 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

arbi-elezi/emperor-time · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z7cae2krjybyzkz4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbi-elezi/emperor-time/AGENTS.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/14ded7845724cc6c3340ce94cdd89e93a34db8d0012988280a6b7abf5331dbce

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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