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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 31,700 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 repository45 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- projects/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/analytics/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/communication/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/competition/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/data/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/design/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/evidence/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/learning/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/meetings/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/orchestration/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/qa/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/support/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- projects/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/analytics/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/communication/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/competition/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/data/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/design/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/evidence/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/learning/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/meetings/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/orchestration/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/qa/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/setup/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- skills/support/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- analyze-product-usageSkill
- audit-eventsSkill
- create-tracking-planSkill
- analyze-team-communicationsSkill
- competitive-analysisSkill
- analyze-query-resultsSkill
- build-querySkill
- build-prototypeSkill
- analyze-customer-evidenceSkill
- analyze-product-contextSkill
- improve-skillsSkill
- analyze-meetingsSkill
- run-product-workflowSkill
- test-product-flowSkill
- configure-workspaceSkill
- analyze-support-ticketsSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 3
Keep configuration provider-neutral and incremental.
- Distinctive: line 6
Run only bounded read-only smoke tests, and only when the user and system permissions allow them.
- Distinctive: line 11
Do not invent business definitions, permissions, identity mappings, metric rules, or source authority.
≈ “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
Workspace-setup rules
- Keep configuration provider-neutral and incremental; configure only what the user's intended workflows require.
- Distinguish connected, authenticated, authorized, scoped, user-reported verification, agent-observed verification, and currently runtime-addressable access for every relevant source.
- Record a non-secret invocation handle or a readable supplied-artifact path. Do not mark a source executable-ready from a user-reported prior test alone.
- Run only bounded read-only smoke tests, and only when the user and system permissions allow them.
- Store source pointers, scopes, definitions, limitations, verification times, environment-variable names, and secret-manager references; never store secret values.
- Require an explicit stable cohort identity and merge/split treatment before declaring longitudinal account or workspace analysis ready.
- With user permission, add only missing blank QA-variable declarations to a git-ignored, untracked local
.env; never inspect, overwrite, or print secret values. Otherwise print only the exact variable names required and keep QA partial. - Preserve absolute authorization windows and last agent-observed verification dates in index.md summaries.
- Do not invent business definitions, permissions, identity mappings, metric rules, or source authority.
- Report every discovered skill as ready, partial, or blocked, with the exact evidence and smallest next action.
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