tastecheck
AGENTS.md12 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub
Brief for coding agents working on this repository (not for agents using the skills).
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 31,774 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.
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The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 1 is common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈1
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
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
- could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
- Very specific: line 28
Do not hand-edit generated marker blocks (<!-- release-facts:v1:start -->, <!-- release-status:v1:start -->, and their end markers).
- Distinctive: line 29
Never add unsupported effectiveness claims.
- Common: line 30
No secrets or machine-specific paths in committed files.
- Distinctive: line 32
Do not commit or change git state unless asked.
≈ “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.md
Brief for coding agents working on this repository (not for agents using the skills).
Layout
skills/<name>/SKILL.md+contract.json: the 20 skillscommands/*.md: Claude Code slash commands (20 plus the/darkmodealias)tools/: verification, release, calibration and eval scriptstools/release/release-facts.json: the single source for the released inventoryevals/corpus/,evals/calibration/: labeled test cases and measured error countssamples/,demos/,index.html: gallery and landing pagedocs/: verification notes and launch copy
Commands
npm ci
npm test # full suite
npm run test:structural # faster structural suite
node tools/verify.mjs
npm run release:inventory # checks generated inventory blocks
node tools/release/check-effectiveness-claims.mjsRules
- Do not hand-edit generated marker blocks (
<!-- release-facts:v1:start -->,<!-- release-status:v1:start -->, and their end markers). Edit the source and runnode tools/release/project-facts.mjs --write. Release status is projected bynpm run finalize. - Never add unsupported effectiveness claims. Effectiveness is BLOCKED; state measured numbers with their scope.
- No secrets or machine-specific paths in committed files.
- Taste data is user-local and must not be committed.
- Do not commit or change git state unless asked.
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