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Applies to skills/.

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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
  1. Very specific:

    Prefer a short SKILL.md router plus task-specific references/scripts over a monolithic instruction file.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Keep examples representative rather than exhaustive.

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  3. Very specific:

    Treat roughly 180 root lines / 1400 body words as a review signal, not a target or hard limit.

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  4. Distinctive:

    When behavior changes, update the matching validator/evaluation and any catalog text that users rely on.

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≈ “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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AGENTS.md

Skill authoring instructions

Applies to skills/.

  • Each skill must have one clear decision domain and a trigger narrow enough to avoid irrelevant loading.
  • Prefer a short SKILL.md router plus task-specific references/scripts over a monolithic instruction file. Keep discovery descriptions to the smallest wording that reliably distinguishes activation.
  • State durable constraints, required evidence, permissions, and completion conditions; avoid rigid step ordering unless the order is semantically required.
  • Reuse existing specialists before creating a new overlapping skill.
  • Keep examples representative rather than exhaustive. Do not make every historical edge case part of the default context.
  • Treat roughly 180 root lines / 1400 body words as a review signal, not a target or hard limit. Extract conditional checklists, rare failure cases, ecosystem guidance, and specialist playbooks behind explicit references/ routing.
  • Preserve explicit safety, approval, migration, and stop conditions when simplifying instructions.
  • When behavior changes, update the matching validator/evaluation and any catalog text that users rely on.

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