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AGENTS.md1 starsChanged 19 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
Instructions for a coding agent working in this repository. They point at the files that hold the rules; nothing here adds one. - Rules for every change: CONTRIBUTING.md, which a change made by an agent follows like any other. - Terms of art: docs/glossary.md, each term with the file that defines it. - Checks: ./scripts/gates.sh --selftest, the same command CI runs, also run by tests/run. Its header states what each gate covers. Checks that need an installed tool, REUSE among…
Where files are headingNew AGENTS.md files have more rules about keeping secrets out of the code, and fewer about code style.
Of the AGENTS.md files we read, the 31,843 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository21 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- .cursor/rules/agents.mdcCursor rule
- commandsSkill
- daily-dashboardSkill
- daily-reviewSkill
- document-standardsSkill
- jotSkill
- merge-proxySkill
- monthly-reviewSkill
- orientSkill
- redaction-gateSkill
- session-closeSkill
- session-logSkill
- skill-creationSkill
- skill-discoverySkill
- surface-regimesSkill
- technical-documentsSkill
- touchSkill
- weekly-reviewSkill
- working-preferencesSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 11
Skills: read skills/skill-creation/SKILL.md before changing one.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 40,246 AGENTS.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Agents
Instructions for a coding agent working in this repository. They point at the files that hold the rules; nothing here adds one.
- Rules for every change:
CONTRIBUTING.md, which a change made by an agent follows like any other. - Terms of art:
docs/glossary.md, each term with the file that defines it. - Checks:
./scripts/gates.sh --selftest, the same command CI runs, also run bytests/run. Its header states what each gate covers. Checks that need an installed tool, REUSE among them, are./scripts/compliance.sh --selftest. - Skills: read
skills/skill-creation/SKILL.mdbefore changing one. - Branch names:
CONTRIBUTING.md, "Branch and tag names", checked byscripts/check-branch-name. - Commits:
CONTRIBUTING.md, "Commits and pull requests": provenance asAssisted-by:andAgent-Effort:trailers with values read from the tool, never a co-author line, session link or footer. TheSigned-off-by:line is the human's; an agent never adds one for them. - Pull requests:
.github/pull_request_template.mdlists what a reviewer expects.
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Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
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