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AGENTS.md examples from real projects

How real projects brief Codex, Cursor and every other agent that reads AGENTS.md.

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ElasticAGENTS.md

elasticsearch

elastic/elasticsearch/AGENTS.md

Stateless Elasticsearch is a distribution where shard data is stored in an object store (e.g., S3, GCS, Azure) rather than local disk. Nodes carry no durable local state. The cluster…

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elasticsearch / benchmarks

elastic/elasticsearch/benchmarks/AGENTS.md

Run from the benchmarks/ directory using the run task with --args. Always use the fully-qualified class name including package to avoid ambiguity. Always pipe through tee /tmp/bench/<descriptivename> using a filename…

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ElasticAGENTS.md

elasticsearch

elastic/elasticsearch/docs/AGENTS.md

Always run docs-builder from the root of the checkout, not from a subdirectory. Running from a subdirectory will only validate that subdirectory's links and may silently miss errors in cross-document…

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kibana

elastic/kibana/AGENTS.md

No summary in the file. Open it to read it.

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logstash

elastic/logstash/AGENTS.md

Logstash is a server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it, and sends it to various destinations. It's part of the Elastic Stack and is a…

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logstash / qa

elastic/logstash/qa/AGENTS.md

Guidance for coding agents working with the QA test infrastructure. See also the root AGENTS.md for general project conventions. The qa/ directory contains three independent test suites: Each suite has…

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logstash / x-pack

elastic/logstash/x-pack/AGENTS.md

Guidance for coding agents working with X-Pack (Elastic-licensed) features. See also the root AGENTS.md for general project conventions. X-Pack provides commercial features that extend the Logstash core. Most features integrate…

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beats

elastic/beats/AGENTS.md

Elastic Beats is a Go monorepo containing lightweight data shippers for the Elastic Stack. The module path is github.com/elastic/beats/v7. Go version: see .go-version. The primary build tool is Mage (Go-based).…

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CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md

About AGENTS.md

What is AGENTS.md?

An open format for instructions to coding agents, read by Codex, Cursor and others. Think of it as a README written for agents.

Where does it go?

At the repository root, with more specific files in subdirectories. Agents read the one closest to the file they're editing.

What should it contain?

Setup and test commands, code style, and the rules a new contributor would need to know.

Does Claude Code read it?

Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md. A one-line CLAUDE.md that points at AGENTS.md covers both.