Report · marked 26 Aug 2026

aquasecurity/trivy

An agent can work here, but it will waste turns finding its footing.

Go · 37,610 stars · 3,380 files · branch main

55 /100 B-

Instructions 3/27Whether the repo tells an agent how to behave before it starts guessing. Losing marks on agent instruction file and instruction quality.Setup 10/20Whether an agent can install the project and get it running without a human. Losing marks on discoverable commands and environment config.Verification loop 22/22Whether an agent can check its own work. This is the category that most decides whether agent output is trustworthy. Full marks.Context economy 9/20Whether the repo fits in a context window, or fights it. Losing marks on no committed build output and repository weight.Navigability 10/10How quickly anything new can orient itself. Full marks.

Higher is better. Accent marks what is costing you most.

Fix these first

Agent instruction file

Add an AGENTS.md at the root: what the project is, how to install, how to run, how to test, and the two or three conventions a newcomer always gets wrong.

Instruction quality

Instructions earn their keep by naming exact commands. 'Run the tests with `pnpm test`' beats three paragraphs of philosophy.

Discoverable commands

Declare the handful of commands that matter in package.json scripts, a Makefile, or a justfile. Naming them turns guesswork into a lookup.

The full marking

Every deduction below names the file or setting it came from.

Instructions 3/27 F

Whether the repo tells an agent how to behave before it starts guessing.

✗Agent instruction file 0/12

None found. Every agent that opens this repo starts from zero.

Add an AGENTS.md at the root: what the project is, how to install, how to run, how to test, and the two or three conventions a newcomer always gets wrong.

Looked for AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .cursorrules

✗Instruction quality 0/12

Nothing to judge, since there are no instructions.

Instructions earn their keep by naming exact commands. 'Run the tests with `pnpm test`' beats three paragraphs of philosophy.

✓README as an entry point 3/3

README has a clear getting-started section.

Setup 10/20 C+

Whether an agent can install the project and get it running without a human.

✓Deterministic install 6/6

go.sum pins the dependency tree.

Found go.sum

✗Discoverable commands 0/6

No declared commands. An agent has to infer how to build and run this from the file tree.

Declare the handful of commands that matter in package.json scripts, a Makefile, or a justfile. Naming them turns guesswork into a lookup.

✗Environment config 0/4

Nothing documents the environment this needs. An agent will get a runtime error it can't diagnose.

Add a .env.example listing every variable with a safe placeholder value. It's the cheapest possible fix and it unblocks the whole first run.

✓Pinned runtime version 2/2

The language runtime version is pinned.

go.mod declares a Go version

✓Reproducible environment 2/2

dockerfile gives a known-good environment.

Verification loop 22/22 A+

Whether an agent can check its own work. This is the category that most decides whether agent output is trustworthy.

✓Tests exist 8/8

665 test files against 1643 source files.

e.g. .github/actions/trivy-triage/helpers.test.js, .github/workflows/bypass-test.yaml, e2e/e2e_test.go

✓Test command is discoverable 7/7

An agent can find and run `go test ./...`.

✓Continuous integration 4/4

22 GitHub Actions workflows define what "passing" means.

✓Lint and format rules 3/3

.golangci.yaml encodes the house style.

–Static type checking n/a

Not applicable — the Go compiler type checks every build.

Context economy 9/20 C

Whether the repo fits in a context window, or fights it.

✗No committed build output 0/6

Generated output is committed: node_modules/, coverage/, .terraform/.

Add these to .gitignore and `git rm -r --cached` them. Generated files pollute search results, so an agent grepping for a function finds the compiled copy and edits the wrong file.

✓.gitignore hygiene 3/3

.gitignore covers 23 patterns.

✓File sizes fit in context 6/6

No source file is large enough to crowd out a context window.

✗Repository weight 0/5

About 941MB checked out. Large enough that cloning and searching are both slow.

Large binaries and vendored trees slow every operation an agent performs. Git LFS or a separate assets repo keeps the working tree navigable.

Here is your AGENTS.md

Drafted from what is actually in this repository: the install command from your lockfile, the commands you already declare, your real directory layout. Anything marked TODO needs a person. Save it at the root as AGENTS.md.

AGENTS.md — drafted for aquasecurity/trivy

# AGENTS.md

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

## Setup

```
go mod download
```

## Commands

```
go test ./...   # run the test suite
```

## Layout

- `pkg/`         1585 source files
- `internal/`    18 source files
- `integration/` 14 source files
- `magefiles/`   10 source files
- `misc/`        3 source files
- `ci/`          2 source files

## Conventions

- Tests live alongside the code they cover, following `.github/actions/trivy-triage/helpers.test.js`.
- CI defines what passing means. See `.github/workflows/auto-close-issue.yaml`, and keep it green.
- TODO: add the two or three conventions a newcomer always gets wrong here.

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Drafted by agentreadme.com from what is in this repository. Everything marked TODO
needs a human. Check it in as AGENTS.md at the root.

Open the raw markdown or curl -o AGENTS.md agentreadme.com/draft/aquasecurity/trivy.md

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