agent-kit
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This is a public repository. Treat every tracked byte as internet-visible. - Never copy credentials, authentication state, transcripts, memories, private notes, or machine-local overrides into this repository. - Use environment-variable names in examples; never include real values. - Keep catalog.json as the source of truth for accepted skills and upstream pins. - Treat docs/top-skills.md as a discovery radar, not an installation list. Add only a named skill that passes the full curation gate. - Preserve third-party license files and attribution.…
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 repository21 other files it gives its agents.
- .codex/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agent-kit-conventionsSkill
- agent-kit-conventionsSkill
- archifySkill
- boundary-demoSkill
- deepen-designSkill
- design-taste-frontendSkill
- excalidraw-architectureSkill
- frontend-designSkill
- hyperframes-cliSkill
- hyperframes-registrySkill
- hyperframesSkill
- manage-agent-kitSkill
- mcp-builderSkill
- media-useSkill
- product-qaSkill
- source-driven-developmentSkill
- threads-oral-notesSkill
- ui-ux-pro-maxSkill
- youtube-scriptSkill
- youtube-script-writerSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
6 rules. About 1 is common, 3 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈1
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
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
- Common: line 5
Never copy credentials, authentication state, transcripts, memories, private notes, or machine-local overrides into this repository.
- Distinctive: line 7
Use environment-variable names in examples.
- Very specific: line 8
Keep catalog.json as the source of truth for accepted skills and upstream pins.
- Very specific: line 10
Treat docs/top-skills.md as a discovery radar, not an installation list.
- Distinctive: line 11
Add only a named skill that passes the full curation gate.
- Distinctive: line 13
Do not overwrite an existing user skill directory.
≈ “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 Kit repository instructions
This is a public repository. Treat every tracked byte as internet-visible.
- Never copy credentials, authentication state, transcripts, memories, private notes, or machine-local overrides into this repository.
- Use environment-variable names in examples; never include real values.
- Keep
catalog.jsonas the source of truth for accepted skills and upstream pins. - Treat
docs/top-skills.mdas a discovery radar, not an installation list. Add only a named skill that passes the full curation gate. - Preserve third-party license files and attribution.
- Do not overwrite an existing user skill directory. The installer must fail safely on conflicts.
- Run
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -vand./bin/agent-kit doctor --strictafter changes. - Review executable vendor changes manually before accepting an upstream update.
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
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Now do this for your own.
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