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This repository is shared between Codex and Claude Code. Use CLAUDE.md as the source of truth for durable repository context, workflow notes, and skill-development conventions. Codex should read and follow the applicable project guidance there unless it conflicts with higher-priority Codex instructions. For Claude skills, edit the repo copy under skills/, then sync with scripts/sync.sh. Do not edit installed copies directly.
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 repository27 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- ai-reviewSkill
- brieflySkill
- commit-batchingSkill
- commit-batchSkill
- create-alertSkill
- disclose-projectSkill
- discloseSkill
- evolve-claude-mdSkill
- figure-reviewSkill
- grillingSkill
- grill-meSkill
- handoffSkill
- lit-reviewSkill
- overbakedSkill
- pathfinderSkill
- pickupSkill
- recover-sessionsSkill
- repo-initSkill
- retroSkill
- reviewer-2Skill
- slack-messageSkill
- spot-aiSkill
- tab-setupSkill
- unstaleSkill
- worklogSkill
- write-new-skillSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is 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.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 7
Use CLAUDE.md as the source of truth for durable repository context, workflow notes, and skill-development conventions.
- Distinctive: line 13
Keep shared repository knowledge in CLAUDE.md unless it is genuinely specific to one agent.
- Very specific: line 14
Keep local/session state in .ai/ when using the existing handoff workflow.
≈ “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
AGENTS.md
This repository is shared between Codex and Claude Code.
Shared Guidance
Use CLAUDE.md as the source of truth for durable repository context, workflow notes, and skill-development conventions. Codex should read and follow the applicable project guidance there unless it conflicts with higher-priority Codex instructions.
Agent-Specific Notes
- Claude Code uses
CLAUDE.mdand.claude/. - Codex uses this
AGENTS.mdentry point and.codex/. - Keep shared repository knowledge in
CLAUDE.mdunless it is genuinely specific to one agent. - Keep local/session state in
.ai/when using the existing handoff workflow.
Editing Rule
For Claude skills, edit the repo copy under skills/, then sync with scripts/sync.sh. Do not edit installed copies directly.
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