codomyrmex
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Repository-scoped, runtime-portable agent configuration: the canonical portable skill library shared by Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other runtimes. - skills/ — five portable skills (agent-interop, first-principles, mcp-tool-use, red-team, systems-thinking), each a folder with one SKILL.md. - README.md — human signpost listing each skill's purpose. - Codex discovers project skills directly from .agents/skills/. - Claude Code reaches them through thin pointer wrappers in .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (for example .claude/skills/agent-interop/SKILL.md). - Hermes reads the tree as a read-only skills.external_dirs entry (example config). - Listed…
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 31,700 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 repository47 other files it gives its agents.
- .agent/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/agent-interop/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/first-principles/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/mcp-tool-use/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/red-team/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/systems-thinking/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .codex/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- config/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .cursor/skills/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .cursor/skills/codomyrmex/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .cursor/skills/desloppify/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .cursor/skills/fractals/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- data/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .devcontainer/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- docs/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- evaluations/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- examples/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .github/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .github/commands/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .github/scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .github/workflows/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .jules/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .pipelines/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- projects/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- src/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- tests/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .workflows/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- agent-interopSkill
- first-principlesSkill
- mcp-tool-useSkill
- red-teamSkill
- systems-thinkingSkill
- agent-interopSkill
- first-principlesSkill
- mcp-tool-useSkill
- qmdSkill
- red-teamSkill
- systems-thinkingSkill
- CodomyrmexSkill
- desloppifySkill
- Fractals orchestratorSkill
- CodomyrmexSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 34
Keep runtime-specific settings (MCP servers, approvals) in each runtime's own file, such as .codex/config.toml, not in this tree.
≈ “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 — codomyrmex/.agents
Purpose
Repository-scoped, runtime-portable agent configuration: the canonical portable skill library shared by Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other runtimes.
Key Files
skills/— five portable skills (agent-interop,first-principles,mcp-tool-use,red-team,systems-thinking), each a folder with oneSKILL.md.README.md— human signpost listing each skill's purpose.
Dependencies
- Codex discovers project skills directly from
.agents/skills/. - Claude Code reaches them through thin pointer wrappers in
.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md(for example.claude/skills/agent-interop/SKILL.md). - Hermes reads the tree as a read-only
skills.external_dirsentry (example config). - Listed in
.agent/SKILL_INDEX.mdand described in docs/agents/agent-interoperability.md. - Parent: ../README.md · Root contract: ../AGENTS.md
Development Guidelines
- This is the canonical copy for portable skills: edit workflow content here and keep runtime wrappers as pointers rather than forks.
- Skills are referenced by name from
.claude/skills/,.agent/SKILL_INDEX.md, and the interoperability doc — keep names stable, and update all of them together when a skill is added, renamed, or removed. - Keep runtime-specific settings (MCP servers, approvals) in each runtime's own
file, such as
.codex/config.toml, not in this tree.
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