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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 31,542 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 repository11 other files it gives its agents.
- .forgetrail/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .forgetrail/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .cursor/rules/commit-messages.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/forgetrail-lessons-gate.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/forgetrail-lessons-mcp.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/forgetrail-phase-status.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/git-user-commits.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/npm-publish.mdcCursor rule
- .cursor/rules/smellcheck.mdcCursor rule
- ember-dossierSkill
- ember-dossierSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 7
Read appledger/profiles/forgetrail.yaml, the latest session record, and docs/PHASE_1_BRIEF.md (or CONTEXT_PROMPT.md once it exists) before …
- Distinctive: line 19
Commit after substantive work.
- Very specific: line 23
Do not advance currentPhase without explicit user confirmation.
≈ “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
Agent guardrails — EmberDossier
This repo uses ForgeTrail. The record is appledger/: the phase in profiles/forgetrail.yaml, and decisions and the session in records/.
Session start
- Read
appledger/profiles/forgetrail.yaml, the latest session record, anddocs/PHASE_1_BRIEF.md(orCONTEXT_PROMPT.mdonce it exists) before making changes. - Stay in the current phase unless the user confirms a transition.
Product rules
- EmberDossier is a format, not a research agent.
- Example subjects in shipped docs are gender-neutral or obviously generic.
- Publishable prose follows Smell Check. Overlay:
docs/smellcheck.md.
Git commits
- Plain
git commit -m "..."orgit commit -F <file>. - Commit after substantive work. Do not push unless the user asks.
Phase transitions
Do not advance currentPhase without explicit user confirmation.
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