skills
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Use standard industry vocabulary in skills, references, README text, and agent instructions. Before naming a concept or replacing shorthand, read the clear-writing terminology glossary. Keep historical labels only in that glossary, with a replacement, a source, and usage context. Preserve legitimate domain terms and exact API identifiers. Do not create another glossary in a sibling skill. Run python3 scripts/verify-skills.py before submitting changes. Validate terminology with python3 scripts/verify-terminology.py as well.
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 31,700 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 repository13 other files it gives its agents.
- ambassadorSkill
- author-itemSkill
- author-skillSkill
- challengeSkill
- clear-writingSkill
- customer-supportSkill
- deliver-and-verifySkill
- game-economySkill
- patrolSkill
- prove-itSkill
- refactorSkill
- swarm-fuseSkill
- unblockSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 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.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 3
Use standard industry vocabulary in skills, references, README text, and agent instructions.
- Distinctive: line 6
Keep historical labels only in that glossary, with a replacement, a source, and usage context.
- Distinctive: line 8
Do not create another glossary in a sibling skill.
- Very specific: line 10
Run python3 scripts/verify-skills.py before submitting 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.
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Repository guidance
Use standard industry vocabulary in skills, references, README text, and agent instructions. Before naming a concept or replacing shorthand, read the clear-writing terminology glossary. Keep historical labels only in that glossary, with a replacement, a source, and usage context. Preserve legitimate domain terms and exact API identifiers. Do not create another glossary in a sibling skill.
Run python3 scripts/verify-skills.py before submitting changes. Validate
terminology with python3 scripts/verify-terminology.py as well.
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