skills
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- Do not add a Co-Authored-By: Claude … trailer (or any AI co-author line) to commit messages or PR bodies in this repo. Commits are authored by the repo owner only. - *Agent is smart each skill doesn't need to elaborate WHAT to do but you focus on WHY it is needed. If you want to provide reference or template, use /references or /scripts, do not write lenghty content inside SKILL.md
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 repository25 other files it gives its agents.
- agents-md-improverSkill
- ai-tutorialSkill
- deassembleSkill
- excalidraw-diagramSkill
- find-overlapping-skillsSkill
- first-principlesSkill
- humanizerSkill
- improve-skillsSkill
- local-artifactSkill
- loom-transcriptSkill
- manage-contextSkill
- organize-skill-mcpSkill
- pair-consultSkill
- pair-optimizeSkill
- pair-ratchetSkill
- pr-classifySkill
- pr-reportSkill
- scan-sessions-and-learnSkill
- simplify-pythonSkill
- skill-flowSkill
- slack-commSkill
- socratesSkill
- step-by-stepSkill
- sub-consultSkill
- to-dbmlSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
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
- Very specific: line 13
If you want to provide reference or template, use /references or /scripts, do not write lenghty content inside SKILL.md
- Distinctive: line 15
Write a compact skill, do not elaborate details but focus on WHY and core concepts.
≈ “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
Agent guidelines
Commits
- Do not add a
Co-Authored-By: Claude …trailer (or any AI co-author line) to commit messages or PR bodies in this repo. Commits are authored by the repo owner only.
Tips
- *Agent is smart each skill doesn't need to elaborate WHAT to do but you focus on WHY it is needed.
If you want to provide reference or template, use
/referencesor/scripts, do not write lenghty content inside SKILL.md - Write a compact skill, do not elaborate details but focus on WHY and core concepts.
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