codomyrmex / config
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Define safe maintenance rules for versioned configuration examples and defaults. - Never add credentials, tokens, private keys, personal contact data, or production-only endpoints. - Preserve documented precedence between defaults, files, environment variables, and explicit caller values. - Keep examples minimal and syntactically valid. - Use the owning module's schema and loader rather than inventing a global validation rule. - Reject unsafe values by default when configuration controls authentication, host verification, publication, deployment, or destructive operations. - Update source defaults, example…
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/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
- .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
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- first-principlesSkill
- mcp-tool-useSkill
- red-teamSkill
- systems-thinkingSkill
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The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
8 rules. About 1 is common, 5 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈1
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈5
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
- could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
- Common: line 12
Never add credentials, tokens, private keys, personal contact data, or production-only endpoints.
- Distinctive: line 16
Keep examples minimal and syntactically valid.
- Distinctive: line 17
Use the owning module's schema and loader rather than inventing a global validation rule.
- Very specific: line 21
Update source defaults, example files, tests, README/SPEC/PAI/security, and changelog together.
- Distinctive: line 23
Run GitNexus impact analysis before changing loader or validator symbols.
- Distinctive: line 24
Do not bulk-regenerate folder documentation during the hand-pass freeze.
- Distinctive: line 35
Run the owning module's focused tests and the repository configuration/source gates relevant to the change.
- Very specific: line 43
If a named test path differs, discover the current path with rg --files tests instead of copying a stale command.
≈ “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: curated -->Agent guidance for configuration
Purpose
Define safe maintenance rules for versioned configuration examples and defaults.
Development Guidelines
- Never add credentials, tokens, private keys, personal contact data, or production-only endpoints.
- Preserve documented precedence between defaults, files, environment variables, and explicit caller values.
- Keep examples minimal and syntactically valid.
- Use the owning module's schema and loader rather than inventing a global validation rule.
- Reject unsafe values by default when configuration controls authentication, host verification, publication, deployment, or destructive operations.
- Update source defaults, example files, tests, README/SPEC/PAI/security, and changelog together.
- Run GitNexus impact analysis before changing loader or validator symbols.
- Do not bulk-regenerate folder documentation during the hand-pass freeze.
Key Files
- README.md — human-facing configuration boundary
- SPEC.md — configuration-surface specification
default.yaml— repository default examplehermes_skills_profile.example.yaml— optional Hermes profile example
Validation
Run the owning module's focused tests and the repository configuration/source gates relevant to the change. At minimum:
uv run --locked ruff check config src/codomyrmex/config_management
uv run --locked pytest -q tests/unit/config_managementIf a named test path differs, discover the current path with rg --files tests
instead of copying a stale command.
Navigation
- Human overview
- Configuration specification
- Repository agent contract
- Configuration management source
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