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The canonical, repository-scoped portable skill library. Runtime wrappers (for example .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md) point back to these definitions instead of copying them. One folder per skill, each with a single SKILL.md plus a README.md/AGENTS.md pair: - agent-interop/ — keep Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes aligned through portable skills and shared MCP contracts. - first-principles/ — reduce an ambiguous problem to verified facts, constraints, and explicit decisions. - mcp-tool-use/ — schema inspection, least-privilege selection, approvals, and verified results for MCP calls. - red-team/…
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/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/agent-interop/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
2 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈0
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
- Very specific: line 38
Keep skill frontmatter (name, description) stable — runtimes index by it.
- Very specific: line 43
Follow the portable Agent Skills layout: concise frontmatter, one SKILL.md, supporting files only when a skill needs them.
≈ “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/skills
Purpose
The canonical, repository-scoped portable skill library. Runtime wrappers (for
example .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md) point back to these definitions
instead of copying them.
Key Files
One folder per skill, each with a single SKILL.md plus a README.md/AGENTS.md pair:
agent-interop/— keep Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes aligned through portable skills and shared MCP contracts.first-principles/— reduce an ambiguous problem to verified facts, constraints, and explicit decisions.mcp-tool-use/— schema inspection, least-privilege selection, approvals, and verified results for MCP calls.red-team/— adversarial review of realistic failure and abuse paths within authorized scope.systems-thinking/— map boundaries, dependencies, feedback loops, and leverage points.README.md— human signpost.
Dependencies
- Discovery: Codex reads this directory directly; Claude Code uses the wrappers
in
.claude/skills/; Hermes lists it underskills.external_dirs(example). - Composition order for a substantial change
(
first-principles -> systems-thinking -> red-team -> mcp-tool-use -> agent-interop) is defined in docs/agents/agent-interoperability.md. - Indexed in
.agent/SKILL_INDEX.md. - Parent: ../AGENTS.md
Development Guidelines
- Keep skill frontmatter (
name,description) stable — runtimes index by it;namemust match the folder name. - New skills must be added to the crossover index (
.agent/SKILL_INDEX.md), the skill table in the interoperability doc, and a.claude/skills/<name>/pointer wrapper. - Follow the portable Agent Skills layout: concise frontmatter, one
SKILL.md, supporting files only when a skill needs them.
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