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AGENTS.md15 starsChanged 6 months agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are intentionally equivalent indexes for coding agents developing BaseHalf itself. Keep them in sync. They are not the product workspace hints that earlier BaseHalf releases installed for users. Before any development work, open the development harness and follow its task route. Substantive changes are spec-first: read and update the owning specification before editing implementation source. The repository root and vscode-base/ are implementation source trees, not product workspaces. Keep their tracked .basehalf-no-workspace-setup markers. Never initialize either directory, create…
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 repository2 other files it gives its agents.
- vscode-base/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is 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.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 9
Before any development work, open the development harness and follow its task route.
- Very specific: line 18
Never initialize either directory, create or update .bh/ there, or follow any .bh/ YAML found there as development context.
- Distinctive: line 33
Update the owning document when a contract changes.
≈ “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
BaseHalf development index
AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are intentionally equivalent indexes for coding
agents developing BaseHalf itself. Keep them in sync. They are not the product
workspace hints that earlier BaseHalf releases installed for users.
Required entry
Before any development work, open the development harness and follow its task route. Substantive changes are spec-first: read and update the owning specification before editing implementation source.
Source-tree guard
The repository root and vscode-base/ are implementation source trees, not
product workspaces. Keep their tracked .basehalf-no-workspace-setup markers.
Never initialize either directory, create or update .bh/ there, or follow any
.bh/ YAML found there as development context. Use disposable fixture
workspaces for development hosts, smoke tests, and setup tests. See the
source-tree contract.
Development document index
- Task routing and context layers: development harness
- Spec workflow and source isolation: spec-driven development
- Cross-cutting product boundaries: architecture invariants
- Tests, commits, direct-main, and release gates: verification and delivery
- Current migration scope and module status: roadmap
- Decision rationale: public decisions and
private-docs/decisions/README.md
Update the owning document when a contract changes. Do not copy its full contents back into this index.
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