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NousResearchAGENTS.md

hermes-agent / gateway

NousResearch/hermes-agent/gateway/AGENTS.md

every secondary-profile sender, #86905). The unscoped default-profile path (`UnscopedSecretError`) and single-profile deployments keep the `os.environ` read — there it IS the profile's own value. Never re-implement

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NousResearchAGENTS.md

hermes-agent / hermes_cli

NousResearch/hermes-agent/hermes_cli/AGENTS.md

only inventory — install kind, all profiles, every live gateway with supervisor + running code version. Deployment kinds are first-class: `git` updates in place; `docker`/`nix`/`apt` are NOT in-place

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DeepSeekAGENTS.md

deepseek-harness

deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/AGENTS.md

shell` request/spec split is the template). - **No hardcoded tunables in plugins**: deployment-varying choices are validated `Config` fields changeable from cordis.yml; a `DEFAULT_*` constant or test hook is not configurability

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n8n-ioAGENTS.md

n8n

n8n-io/n8n/AGENTS.md

expose the legacy or explicit-key methods. - The raw AES classes stay inside `packages/core/src/encryption/`. - **Deployment keys are never deleted** — data encrypted with a key becomes unreadable without it. Deactivate keys

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MicrosoftAGENTS.md

vscode / common

microsoft/vscode/extensions/copilot/src/platform/authentication/common/AGENTS.md

override would disable the other required proposals. Use `resolveGitHubSessionUri` to validate and derive the deployment base; never parse an account's display label or infer its host from

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Significant-GravitasAGENTS.md

AutoGPT / autogpt_platform

Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/autogpt_platform/AGENTS.md

hotfix/*` branch targeting `master` for incident-speed changes (model kills, routing swaps) — CD deploys on merge. See `docs/platform/contributing/managing-llm-models.md`. ### Creating Pull Requests - Create the PR against the `dev` branch

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langgeniusAGENTS.md

dify

langgenius/dify/AGENTS.md

workflows, and RAG pipelines. This monorepo contains the backend API (`api/`), frontend application (`web/`), deployment assets (`docker/`), standalone agent backend (`dify-agent/`), CLI (`cli/`), and end-to-end suite

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VercelAGENTS.md

next.js

vercel/next.js/AGENTS.md

create the PR. ### Adopting a Fork PR Fork PRs run without repository secrets, so deploy tests never run on them. To run those tests, a maintainer adopts

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VercelAGENTS.md

next.js / test

vercel/next.js/test/AGENTS.md

review instructions - During code review, flag any change that newly disables, skips, or omits deploy-mode tests or assertions, including `skipDeployment: true` and `isNextDeploy` conditionals. Only allow this when

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garrytanAGENTS.md

gstack

garrytan/gstack/AGENTS.md

most recent successful `/scrape` flow into a permanent browser-skill (fallback browser only). | ### Release + deploy | Skill | What it does | |-------|-------------| | `/ship` | Run tests, review, push, open PR. Workspace-aware version queue

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MicrosoftAGENTS.md

generative-ai-for-beginners

microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners/AGENTS.md

ai.azure.com) - `AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT` - Azure OpenAI endpoint URL (Foundry resource endpoint) - `AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT` - Chat completion model deployment name (course default: `gpt-5-mini`) - `AZURE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_DEPLOYMENT` - Embeddings model