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Portable repository-scoped skill: Reduce an ambiguous technical problem to verified facts, constraints, and explicit decisions before proposing a solution. Defined entirely by SKILL.md. - SKILL.md — canonical definition: frontmatter (name: first-principles, description), a six-step workflow (outcome → separate facts from assumptions → decompose → verify decision-changing facts → rebuild → record trade-offs), and the required decision-record output (objective, facts, constraints, assumptions, options, chosen design, risks, verification evidence). - README.md — human signpost. - Claude Code wrapper: .claude/skills/first-principles/SKILL.md only points back…

The file

We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent

2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈1

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 1

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Use when a request is ambiguous or a design has accumulated unexamined assumptions.

    line 31
  2. Very specific:

    Keep name equal to the folder name.

    line 34

≈ “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

AGENTS.md — codomyrmex/.agents/skills/first-principles

Purpose

Portable repository-scoped skill: Reduce an ambiguous technical problem to verified facts, constraints, and explicit decisions before proposing a solution. Defined entirely by SKILL.md.

Key Files

  • SKILL.md — canonical definition: frontmatter (name: first-principles, description), a six-step workflow (outcome → separate facts from assumptions → decompose → verify decision-changing facts → rebuild → record trade-offs), and the required decision-record output (objective, facts, constraints, assumptions, options, chosen design, risks, verification evidence).
  • README.md — human signpost.

Dependencies

  • Claude Code wrapper: .claude/skills/first-principles/SKILL.md only points back to this file.
  • Codex discovers it from .agents/skills/; Hermes via skills.external_dirs.
  • First step of the composition order in docs/agents/agent-interoperability.md; its decision record feeds systems-thinking.
  • Parent: ../AGENTS.md

Development Guidelines

  • Use when a request is ambiguous or a design has accumulated unexamined assumptions.
  • This is the canonical copy; runtime wrappers such as .claude/skills/first-principles/ stay pointers — change the workflow here.
  • Keep name equal to the folder name; a rename must also update the wrapper, .agent/SKILL_INDEX.md, and the interoperability doc.
  • Preserve the rule that an assumption is never presented as a fact, and keep the decision-record fields stable so downstream skills can rely on them.

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