roadmapsmith
AGENTS.md1 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub
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 31,439 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 repository5 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- roadmap-initSkill
- roadmap-updateSkill
The file
We split this agents.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
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 3
Write release notes to a temp file.
- Very specific: line 4
After every PR merge, delete the local fix branch with git branch -D <branch> and pull main (squash merges require -D, not -d).
- Distinctive: line 6
When changing the action gate, grep test fixtures for action-verb task texts first.
- Distinctive: line 7
When removing CLI commands, update functional-smoke gate checks in the same commit.
- Very specific: line 8
Run node scripts/run-tests.js, not node --test, before pushing.
≈ “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
Rules
- Write release notes to a temp file; never inline markdown in
--notes. - After every PR merge, delete the local fix branch with
git branch -D <branch>and pull main (squash merges require-D, not-d). - Token overlap cannot override a human warning; require Evidence line or test.
- When changing the action gate, grep test fixtures for action-verb task texts first.
- When removing CLI commands, update functional-smoke gate checks in the same commit.
- Run
node scripts/run-tests.js, notnode --test, before pushing.
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